After a week of hearing ghostly noises, a man is visited in his home by the spirit of his mother, dead for three decades. She reproaches him for his dissolute life and begs him to have Masses said in her name. Then she lays her hand on his sleeve, leaving an indelible burn mark, and departs... A Lutheran minister, no believer in Purgatory, is the puzzled recipient of repeated visitations from "demons" who come to him seeking prayer, consolation, and refuge in his little German church. But pity for the poor spirits overcomes the man's skepticism, and he marvels at what kind of departed souls...

-The tragedies foretold in Fatima did not come to an end with the demise of Communism. The crisis has not been resolved. From a certain point of view it is still as serious as it ever was, as it is primarily a crisis of faith, hence a moral and social crisis.-
-- Pope Benedict XVI

The apparitions in 1917 of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, are perhaps the most important private revelations in the history of the Church. At the height of World War I and on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Our Lady appeared in Fatima to...

V zemích západní Evropy, okupovaných za druhé světové války nacisty, hrozila za pomoc pronásledovaným Židům konfiskace majetku, uvěznění, v nejhorším případě deportace do koncentračního tábora. Když někdo ukrýval Židy nebo jim pomáhal v okupovaném Polsku, byl za to bez soudu zastřelen i s celou rodinou. Každý sebemenší projev solidarity se Židy uprchlými z ghetta mohl tedy způsobit likvidaci celé rodiny. Přesto se našly tisíce Poláků, kteří Židům pomáhali. Izraelský institut Jad Vašem vyznamenal titulem „Spravedlivý mezi národy“ přes...