
One of the more curious objections Catholics hear is that the saints in heaven cannot hear our requests for prayer, cannot know anything about what happens on earth, and certainly cannot intercede for us. Yet many of the same Christians have no difficulty believing that demons can tempt human beings, influence the world, wage spiritual…

The extraordinary case of Emma Schmidt, the claims preserved by witnesses, and the victory that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. In 1928, inside a secluded convent near Earling, Iowa, a Capuchin priest began a solemn exorcism that would become one of the most widely discussed cases of alleged demonic possession in American Catholic history. The…

What the Catholic Church actually teaches about temptation, oppression, possession, and spiritual warfare. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” — 1 John 4:4 (Douay-Rheims), Douay-Rheims Hollywood vs. Catholic Reality We live in a strange age. Modern culture often rejects belief in the supernatural while simultaneously obsessing over…