When Pope John Paul II came to the Basilica of Our Lady of  Guadalupe in 1999, he named her Queen of All America and consecrated the entire Continent to her. He prayed, “Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of Peace, save the…

“The Church does not cease to be amazed at the paradox of a King who made himself a servant, becoming like us in every way except sin . . . The King we contemplate today is in fact the Good…

The small young nun with beautiful large blue eyes entered the presence of the elderly Pope Leo XIII. She knelt before him and told him of her ambition to go to China. He shook his head and said, “No, not to the East, my daughter, but to the West.” He decided that Mother Francis Cabrini should go to the United States and not to China. This began a missionary service that resulted in the largest number of missionary foundations in the United States.

Our Founding Fathers wanted to “insure domestic tranquility” through the Constitution of the United States as the framework of our government. They did this by recognizing our God-given natural right to life in their Declaration of Independence. This was later…

“Mary has been made Queen of heaven and earth by God, exalted above all the choirs of angels and all the saints. She is to be called Queen not only because of her divine motherhood, but also because she, by the…

A new Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin will be dedicated by its Founder this week. Most Reverend Raymond L. Burke, Archbishop of St. Louis and former Bishop of La Crosse, will dedicate the shrine which…

The Feast of St. Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is usually celebrated on March 19. However, because this date is in Holy Week this year, the Feast will be celebrated on March 15.

Husband of Mary

From Scripture we know that the great virtue of St. Joseph was his obedient faith. "He did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as his wife" (Mt. 1:24). He did this in spite of the fact that Mary's pregnancy was apparently visible to everyone. He took her in the mystery of her motherhood and acted in obedient faith, as did Mary when she said, "Let it be done to me according to your word" (Lk. 1:38). "Blessed are they who have not seen, yet have believed" (Jn. 20:29).

From Scripture we know that the great virtue of St. Joseph was his obedient faith. “He did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as his wife” (Mt 1:24). He did this in spite of the…

Faith, Hope and Consolation

Our Lady came to offer faith, hope and consolation to the oppressed natives of Mexico and to reconcile them with their Spanish rulers. She put an end to the bloody human sacrifice of the Aztecs and…

Dear Friend of Our Lady of Guadalupe,

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Can we, as a nation, continue together permanently — forever half slave and half free?” 140 years later, Pope John Paul II said that Lincoln’s question is still a…