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I love saints. I’m always excited to look at the church calendar each day and see which saint we are celebrating and read about who they were. Although it’s not an easy journey to become a saint recognized by the Catholic Church. It involves a great deal of investigation, interviewing witnesses, inquiries, and examination of the person’s life. There is much more involved than I’ll be going into here, but rest assured it is a long, intensive process. There are four steps, or t

Recently I discovered a miracle that I had never heard about before, which happened in the mid 1940’s. What was also amazing was the way I discovered it, which in and of itself was also rather miraculous. Several weeks ago, my daughter Helena sent me a picture of a Dove that was sitting on the railing of her second-floor porch. She said it was there like 6 hours, just sitting or jumping around, but never leaving the porch. She thought it very strange because she had not remem

Sometimes an event occurs that completely defies natural law, and without faith no explanation is possible. With faith, however, no explanation is necessary. Such was the case of a Jesuit community of eight priests, living just blocks from the epicenter of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast on August 6, 1945. The blast killed nearly 140,000 people, and everything within a mile of the blast was annihilated with nothing left standing, and no survivors. Yet a little over a half a