DEAR FRIAR RICK: There is terrible confusion nowadays between sex and love. In the past the Church gave clear teachings on sexual morality, and this created the general sensation that ‘...
FATIMA lives in Sudan. She went into labour at the age of 16, ten years ago, but by the time she was taken to hospital, the baby was dead. Fatima developed an obstetric fistula during the difficult...
ON FRIDAY, 13 March 2015, Pope Francis presided over a penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica during which he announced an extraordinary Jubilee Year dedicated to Divine Mercy. The event will...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: my wife and I really appreciate your wisdom in answering people’s problems. We are deeply worried about the spiritual and physical destruction all around us. People are...
POPE FRANCIS makes his first ever visit to the United States this month for what could turn out to be the most challenging pastoral journey of his two and a half year old pontificate. The packed...
IMAGINE yourself back in time. You have made a pilgrimage to Padua sometime between 1232 and 1293 (Jean Rigauld, in a biography of the Saint written in 1293, records the incident mentioned here) to...