The Catholic Defender: Deepertruth prayer for those who recently have passed from this life.
God our Father,Your power brings us to birth,Your providence guides our lives, and by Your command we return to dust. Lord, those who...
The Catholic Defender: Blessed Peter Gonzalez
Peter was born into a noble family in Castile, Spain, in 1190, and he became a priest as a step to high office. One Christmas Day, during...
The Catholic Defender: Saint Martin I
St. Martin I, (born, Todi, Tuscany [Italy]—died September 16, 655, Cherson, Crimea [now Kherson, Ukraine]; feast day April 13), pope from...
The Catholic Defender: Saint Teresa of Los Andes "Flower of the Andes"
As a young girl growing up in the early 1900’s in Santiago, Chile, Juana Fernandez read an autobiography of a French-born saint—Thérèse,...