Fatima

Pope Francis consecrates Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

03/25/2022 at 9:45 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, March 25, 2022 Pope Francis on Friday consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with a prayer asking for peace in the world. At the end of a penitential service in St. Peter’s Basilica on March 25, the pope carried out the... read more

Exclusive: Bishop Schneider on Pope Francis’ Consecration of Russia and Ukraine

03/21/2022 at 9:45 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our October 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.–Ed.] By Diane Montagna, One Peter Five, March 21, 2022 March 21, 2022 (Rome)—As Pope Francis prepares to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary... read more

Defending Marriage in the Pope Francis Era

05/03/2021 at 2:52 PM By Kevin Edward White
THE DECISIVE BATTLE By Richard A. Spinello, New Oxford Review, May 2021 On December 26, 1957, Lucia dos Santos, one of the three child visionaries from Fatima, gave her final public interview. The other two visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, had died shortly after Mary appeared to... read more

According to Prophecy: Are These Difficult Times the ‘End Times’?

10/04/2018 at 4:40 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Don’t overlook the scandal’s mystical dimension Judy Roberts, Oct. 3, 2018 Under the sobering headline, “A Time of Judgment and Purification,” Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Renewal Ministries published a decades-old message in its July newsletter that seemed eerily timely. “My Church... read more

Defending Marriage at the Youth Synod

08/27/2018 at 3:25 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Richard A. Spinello, August 27, 2018 When Cardinal Carlo Caffarra was given the responsibility of starting Pope John Paul II’s Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, he wrote a letter to Sister Lucia de Santos of Fatima asking for prayers. Many Catholics by now are familiar with... read more

Fatima nun has 15,000 pages of evidence for beatification cause

12/31/2017 at 12:43 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Fatima, Portugal, Dec 27, 2017 / 11:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Officials with the beatification cause of Sister Lucia dos Santos have collected thousands of pages of materials testifying to the holiness of the nun, one of the three children who were witnesses to the famous Marian apparitions at... read more

Fatima the Uncanny

10/19/2017 at 9:24 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Robert Royal, October 14, 2017 The world did not tilt on its axis or end yesterday, as some devotees of an apocalyptic view of Fatima seem vaguely to have expected. The old Christian world, as the Lady warned at Fatima, however, has broadly, over the past century, shifted and fallen away.... read more

Instead of ‘The Benedict Option’, Consider ‘The Marian Option’

10/18/2017 at 4:05 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
by Jennifer Roback Morse, October 14, 2017 The Benedict Option has taken up a lot of bandwidth in cultural conservative circles, more than it deserves, frankly. A much better book has come out: The Marian Option by philosophy Ph.D. and homeschooling mother of four, Dr. Carrie Gress. Before I... read more

Reflections on the Fatima Centenary

10/06/2017 at 8:20 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY REV. ROBERT A. SIRICO, OCTOBER 5, 2017 The devotion to Mary within the Christian DNA, could properly be said to derive in the first instance from the high esteem shown to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel, who brings to Mary the announcement of her vocation of mother of the Savior of the world.... read more

Hundreds of thousands expected to join mass rosary prayer along Polish border

09/27/2017 at 11:19 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
by Staff Reporter,  26 Sep 2017 Catholics will gather along Poland's 2,000-mile border to pray for their country Poland’s bishops have urged Catholics to join a mass rosary prayer along the country’s border to mark the end of the Fatima centenary, and pray for the salvation of their... read more

Carlo Cardinal Caffarra: 1938-2017

09/06/2017 at 5:35 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Voice of the Family mourns the loss of His Eminence Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, a tireless teacher and defender of Catholic doctrine on marriage and the family. Cardinal Caffarra was Archbishop of Bologna from 2003 until 2015 and was elevated to the college of Cardinals in 2006. In 1981 he founded... read more

New Book Raises Doubts About Fatima Conspiracy Theories

09/01/2017 at 8:32 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

A message of hope from Hiroshima

08/11/2017 at 8:26 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Developing Lives Of Peace After The Heart Of Mary

07/30/2017 at 4:08 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Chartres Pilgrimage, Fatima, the 10th Anniversary of the Motu proprio, the Dubia: an interview with Cardinal Burke

06/26/2017 at 9:37 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Bishop Schneider: Consecration will bring Russia ‘to the fullness of conversion’

05/31/2017 at 3:08 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Is Fatima a Distraction or More Relevant than Ever?

05/26/2017 at 4:45 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

BREAKING: Cardinal Burke calls for Consecration of Russia to Immaculate Heart of Mary

05/19/2017 at 12:02 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

German cardinal: John Paul II yielded to pressure from advisers not to name Russia in consecration

05/17/2017 at 4:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

‘We have a Mother!’: Pope canonizes 2 Fatima visionaries

05/15/2017 at 3:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett