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Angels & Dragons XXV: St. Michael the Archangel in Colossae

St. Michael the Archangel was present in the life of the apostles and the early church from the very beginning. St. John the Evangelist wrote about St. Michael in the Book of Revelation, and others witnessed his prophecy at Colossae about the coming of St. Michael.    When St. John the Evangelist went to preach the… [Read More]

Angels & Dragons XXIV: The Scapular of Saint Michael the Archangel

The Scapular of Saint Michael the Archangel is a sacramental of the Catholic Church. It was blessed by Pope Pius IX in 1878 and formally approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1880. The official blessing and investiture prayer found in the Roman Ritual for the Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel has seven important statements… [Read More]

Angels & Dragons XXIII: St. Michael the Archangel in America

In Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA, there is a shrine to St. Michael the Archangel with an ancient icon of St. Michael known for decades for miraculously curing many sick in America.  The icon is approximately 400 years old, and it comes from Symi, an island in a chain known as Greece’s Dodecanese.  The story began… [Read More]

Angels & Dragons XXII: St. Michael the Archangel in Mexico

On April 25, 1631, St. Michael the Archangel appeared in Tlaxcala, Mexico to a 17-year-old named Diego Lázaro de San Francisco who was married to Francisca Castillian Xuchitl.   The apparition occurred as everyone was processing in celebration of a previous apparition of St. Michael to St. Gregory the Great (April 25, 590 A.D) during a… [Read More]

Book Review of Abuse of Trust: Healing from Clerical Sexual Abuse

  In the current wave of the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, it has been hard to know what to do. I have taken it on faith that the church eventually would survive this crisis and make the necessary changes to protect children and adults from abuse, because I believe the Church is true…. [Read More]