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Dad, Mom, and Seven Children; Executed together in 1944– Beatified together in 2025
Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and Children public domain Over the years I have written about many saints. Most of them have been little known. The truth is, I have loved searching the treasure troves of stories and essays and autobiographies and biographies of Catholic heroes and heroines. But among them all there has only been… Read more
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Praise the Lord—Jumbo Feeney attended Mass on Easter
JUMBO FEENEY’S EASTER MIRACLE By Larry Peterson Jumbo Feeney and I grew up together in the Bronx and have been best friends since first grade. We can go a year without talking to one another, and when we get on the phone together, it is just like we spoke ten minutes ago. I love… Read more
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Halloween and the Legend of the Jack-O-Lantern
By Larry Peterson Long ago in Ireland, the land of shamrocks, leprechauns, soft winds and smiles, there lived a man named Jack. Jack was quite lazy and did not like to work. But he had the gift of “blarney” and could talk the peat off the moss. He would tell wondrous tales about his adventures… Read more
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St. Vincent de Paul— (Feast day September 27) Some facts about his life you may not know
By Larry Peterson I was a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society for twenty-five years. At present I am not active but being part of this organization has allowed me to interact and work with the least and most marginalized of God’s people. My affiliation with the society has allowed me to experience… Read more
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Pope St. Pius X: His motto was “Restore all things in Christ” and he did his best to do just that.
By Larry Peterson The two most beloved Popes of the twentieth century lived during the beginning and at the end of that century. We all know of Pope St. John Paul II who guided the Church from 1978 into the new millennium. However, not as many people know about the man who became pope during… Read more
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The Dormition of the Blessed Virgin preceded her Assumption; What does that mean?
By Larry Peterson On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, writing and speaking ex-cathedra, solemnly defined in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, the dogma that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” We know this as the… Read more
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