Lk 12:49-53.

I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already

blazing!

There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my

anguish until it is accomplished!

Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell

you, but rather division.

From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two

against three;

a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a

mother against her daughter and … [More]

catholicnewsagency | February 06, 2008
The inexplicable cure of a Baptist woman who suffered from breast cancer could lead to the canonization of Charles of Habsburg, the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian empire who made his life as husband, father and governor a path to holiness.

Also known as Carlo d'Austria Memorial 21 October Profile Son of Archduke Otto and Princess Maria Josephine of Saxony; great-nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph I. A stigmatic nun prophesied that he would be the victim of attacks and great suffering. A group of people were specifically assigned to pray for him at all times; after his death this group formed the League of prayer of the Emperor Charles for the peace of the peoples, which became an ecclesiastically recognized prayer group in 1963. He … [More]