Their Post-Abortion Stories Showed Me How Little I Knew of God’s Love
I’ve been working on a project about healing after abortion and part of that has included listening to the stories of post-abortive women who have experienced God’s healing and forgiveness. Each...
View ArticleMark Ruffalo’s Reaction to His Mom’s Abortion Isn’t the Whole Story
The question of telling one’s children about a prior abortion has been debated by many. Some believe “the truth will set you free." Maybe it will in this case, but while the mother may feel unburdened...
View ArticleVideo: Singing Nurse Eases The Pain of Patients
Jared Axen is a nurse in Valencia, California, who happens to love singing. During shifts, he would absent-mindedly sing as we went about his work, and soon realized he could help people with his songs...
View ArticleThe Simple Act That Restored A Soldier’s Faith (Video)
Produced by True Move H, this commercial dramatizes the kind of giving that can be the most powerful: heartfelt compassion, driven by our common humanity. Loving our neighbor as ourselves, expecting...
View ArticleA Journey Home, from Addict to Friar
Daniel Maria Piras is a young Franciscan currently in formation the Province of Umbria. He is 32 years old and a native of Carbonia, Sardinia, home to his parents, Carlo and Graziella, and to his...
View Article2 Studies: Music Heals and Prevents Disease
How timely is the appearance of “Cecilia”, Aleteia’s World Showcase of faith-filled music? Timely enough to seem like the perfect response to recently-published research on the power of art, as in this...
View ArticleLourdes Miracle Reveals Merciful God
Pope Francis has said that “prayer makes miracles,” and there really is proof. The 69th miracle to be certified at Lourdes was recognized by the beneficiaries’ local bishop in 2013. It was a miracle...
View ArticleArizona Woman Claims Full Healing After Venerating Relics of St. Charbel
When Dafne Gutierrez, a 30-year-old blind mother of three, stood in front of a priest for a blessing, she felt there was someone standing on her right. Her family told her later that the priest was...
View ArticleWATCH: Curing Medical Conditions With Sound and Light
John Grisham has written many novels, among them including The Client, The Rainmaker and The Pelican Brief. Now he has a new one, The Tumor. And no, that’s not a joke. He wrote it to draw attention to...
View ArticleThe Liberating Power of the St. Benedict Medal
The Jubilee Medal of St. Benedict is recognized by the Catholic Church as a sacramental of great power, particularly for those seeking healing from illnesses and deliverance from demonic influences....
View ArticleA summer camp gives witness to a child’s grief and turns it into hope
They arrive brokenhearted. The children who come to Camp New Hope each summer have lost loved ones — mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, relatives. But after four days together, they leave with...
View Article4 Reasons people avoid seeking counseling (and why they don’t hold up)
I went back to counseling recently. I’m not seeking therapeutic help because of addiction, or because I’m a serial adulterer, or because I’m facing an epic marital crisis. I’m going because sometimes,...
View ArticleWhen death births life: St. Bryce Missions grew out of a family’s grief
“I went to the jungle thinking I was going to grieve, but God brought me there to heal,” author and full-time missionary Colleen C. Mitchell said as she sat on a stool in my kitchen, watching me...
View ArticlePraying the Rosary as a means to productive inner healing
Autumn, with its crisper air and vibrant colors, always seems like a particularly healthful and healing season. It is a perfect season to undertake reading Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s Praying the Rosary...
View ArticleWATCH: How the forest can heal you
The natural world is a gift from God and created to be more than a backdrop to our lives. Research shows that spending time in nature — even something as simple as taking a walk in the woods — can...
View ArticleWATCH: Children with Down syndrome demonstrate the power of the Incarnation
He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all… — from the hymn “Once in Royal David’s City” At at time where countries like France are banning videos that show happy Down syndrome...
View ArticleThis family longs to hear the words, “Little girl, your sight has been restored”
To watch 5-year-old Pearl Feng skip around the Ronald McDonald house, the residence in which she’s temporarily living near the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, you would never know she just came...
View ArticleOscar-nominated documentary tells story of autistic boy who found his voice...
When Owen Suskind was just three years old, he disappeared. He didn’t go missing in the physical sense, he went inside himself — he stopped speaking, laughing, and lost motor skills. Eventually, Owen...
View ArticleHow the words of a stranger eased my grief over my 12-year-old’s death
"As I waited with Jack’s body, I was shocked that all the birds were singing in the darkness. I’ll never forget the sound of it.”I sat at a small table in the back of the bookstore, looking out at the...
View ArticleThese miraculous oils continue to bring healing
As in today's Gospel, God still uses material things to accomplish his plan.During his public ministry, Jesus went out of his way to use material things to bring about healing. For example, as we hear...
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