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  • A Tip from Padre Pio

    An ongoing thread woven through The Marian Room are tips from the spiritual masters; such as the saints, Church Fathers, popes, Doctors of the Church, and priests. Today, we hear from, again, St. Padre Pio (b. 1887- d. 1968). St. Pio wrote many letters to those he assisted in the spiritual life, and if he could, jump out of heaven right now, he…

  • Carry On

    Over the past several weeks, I have had the opportunity to wander about the states of Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; meeting, along the way, Roman Catholic lay persons, and priests. It was lovely. Yes, the Church is currently suffering. I am not equipped to say what precisely is happening during this current time of crisis, but I can…

  • The Church Militant in Action

    “Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy…