Lives Of The Saints

Babe Ruth Catholic Philanthropist & Baseball Legend

Babe Ruth Catholic Philanthropist by Mike Church [originally published September 16th, 2019] There is a side of Babe Ruth that the secular world doesn’t speak of because it isn’t convenient to the “fat drunk and stupid” narrative of a hedonist gone wild on baseball riches. The real Babe Ruth, while challenged by gluttony, was a very charitable man and would have made a great member of Crusader Knights of the […]

May 25, 2023 8

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The Stable Genius And The Feast Of The Holy Family

Mandeville, LA - Today is the day we celebrate the Feast of The Holy Family, given to us by God as The example to model our lives by and for the young to aspire to begin families in their image. In a world gone mad and given to the most hideous practices of "family-life" e.g. the obsession with helping 5 year olds to "transition", the Holy Family's example deservedly shines […]

January 8, 2023 34

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Patroness of The Sacred Heart-Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

The feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin and the “Beloved Disciple of the Sacred Heart.” She was born at Lhautecour, France, on July 22, 1647. Her parents, Claude and Philiberte Alacoque were poor and devout. After a brief period of courting, young Margaret enter the Visitation Order begun by St Jane de Chantal. On Our Lord’s third apparition to the young novice, in 1675, He opened His robe and […]

October 17, 2021 52

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The Day The Mohammedans Were Trounced By Our Lady’s Holy Name & “Don John III”

September 12th is one of the most significant feast days for Our Lady on the whole of the Church’s calendar-The Feast of The Holy Name of Mary. In the 13th century, Manicheism had re-established itself in the south of France. But Saint Dominic appeared with Our Lady’s rosary for the defense of the people. On September 12, 1213, Simon de Montfort and the CRUSADERS of the faith, one against forty, […]

September 12, 2021 6

Lives Of The Saints

The Kingship of Saint King Louis IX Lives in Louisiana

by Mike Church The saint was born at Poïssy, in the diocese of Chartres, on the 25th of April 1215. His mother was named Blanche, she was a pious and holy woman who famously wrote to Saint King Louis IX “I love you my dear son, with all the tenderness a mother is capable of; but I would infinitely rather see you fall down dead at my feet, than that […]

August 25, 2021 29

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The Most Beloved Catholic Priest, Ever, Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney

By - Mike Church Feature image from Pierre Poschadel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “We declare Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney to be a Saint and inscribe him in the catalogue of the Saints.” - His holiness of blessed memory Pope Pius XI, May 31st, 1925, Pentacost Sunday - The Beatification of St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger begins his biography of Saint Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney. […]

August 8, 2021 24

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Saint Vincent de Paul, Slave & Holy Founder of The Lazarites

There is hardly any saint in the history of France, that endured more challenge and torment in his life than Saint Vincent of Paul. The Rev. Alban Butler begins his magnificent hagiography of this great saint we can model our own suffering and militant lives upon thus. EVEN in the most degenerate ages, when the true maxims of the gospel seem almost obliterated among the generality of those who profess […]

July 19, 2020 13

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CRUSADER Knights! Let Us Armor Up For Consecration to Saint Joseph!

On 08 January, 2020, Wisdom Wednesday as I call it on the Mike Church Show I announced to Brother André Marie that I was declaring 2020 "The Year of Saint Joseph". You may wonder "why, Mike" and I can tell you: after 3 years of learning of and by Our Lady's request, strengthening my devotion to St Joseph I began a doubling of prayers for his intercession and not just […]

May 1, 2020 6

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It Is Time To Make Your Consecration To Saint Joseph! The Radio Event!

It Is Time To Make Your Consecration To Saint Joseph! The Radio Event! by Mike Church CRUSADER Knights of The Most Holy Rosary & Mike Church Present In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly researched and lovingly presented program of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, […]

March 30, 2020 1