Gen Z students swap ‘pints for pews’ visiting 40 churches and counting — By: Catholic News Agency

Just over a year ago in County Wicklow, Ireland, three young men decided to sidestep the secular Christmas season tradition of hitting 12 pubs and instead visited 12 different churches for Sunday Mass. Forty churches later, Luke Doogue, 20, and his friends Neil, 19, and Stephen Patterson, 17, have found themselves explaining on Irish national…

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Pope Leo appoints Sister Raffaella Petrini as a member of Commission on Reserved Matters — By: Catholic News Agency

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini as a member of the Commission for Reserved Matters, the Holy See Press Office announced in a Feb. 3 statement. She is the first woman to serve on the commission, created in 2020 by Pope Francis, which is responsible for awarding financial contracts in confidential areas of…

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Exorcist Diary #381: The Hounds of Hell — By: St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal

[ St. Michael the Archangel , Master of Castelsardo, 15th-16th century] Hell Hounds are thought to be mythological creatures from the underworld who serve the devil. They are often depicted as fierce, muscular, black dogs with sharp teeth and red eyes. But actually such “mythological” creatures do exist and have attacked great saints. ” On…

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Exorcist Diary #379: Is Demonic Lethargy Real? — By: St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal

[see ” Last Supper ,” San Marco fresco, Italy; Ghirlandaio ] After only a few days, our recently published video: “Pray With Me: Demons of Lethargy” topped 125k views.  The rapid and overwhelming response suggests that it hit a long-hidden nerve.  A lot of people are suffering from lethargy and have not found any effective…

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Exorcist Diary #375: The Hidden Demonic Affliction — By: St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal

[” The Fool with Two Demons ,” detail, Ingeborg Psalter, c. 1205] Demons shame people. Constantly. Compulsively. Always. In hell there is no affirmation. Mystics who have had a graced vision of hell speak of demons eternally tormenting people with their sins. Over and over again, demons in hell rub the noses of the damned…

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