Joseph M Tuttle

In his wonderful book on the Holy Spirit, The Sanctifier, Archbishop Luis Martinez notes that there are two sanctifiers of souls. 1) the Holy Spirit, Who is the essence of Holiness and 2) Mary, His spouse, who is the Mediatrix of all the graces He wishes to bestow upon us. The purpose of sanctification is ultimately to transformed into Jesus Christ, in a particular way.
The Apostle's creed reads “I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only...

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, compiled and edited by Fr. Dave Tomaszycki, On the Demonic, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2024.
In his book Those Mysterious Priests published in 1974, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen desired to write an entire book on the Demonic. It was a theme he frequently dealt with, though often not in great detail in one sitting. Fr. Dave Tomaszycki set out to find this long lost manuscript only to discover that the Archbishop did not have one. Sheen died before such a book was publish...

The existence, aid, and veneration of angels is a key dogma of the Catholic Church. She teaches that angels exist and that every person has a guardian angel that watches over them and aids them in their path to salvation. The Liturgy teaches about their existence and ways in which man interacts with them. It is the purpose of this essay to examine how the angels act in the Liturgy by looking at what the Liturgy itself says and teaches about them.

Michael,
His sword is sharp,
His armor thick,
He does not play a flute or harp,
His spear a deadly stick.

Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel around the Midwest and visit some of the up-and-coming saints of the United States of America. Unfortunately, there seem to be few native born American saints and those who are native born, like Fulton Sheen, are sitting in limbo for no good reason.
I recently discovered that there was another “Servant of God” in central Illinois, aside from Venerable Fr. Augustus Tolton and Venerable Fulton J. Sheen. His name is Brother Simon Van Ackeren, O...

The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, issued from the Second Vatican Council, emphasized the point that every person has a vocation to holiness. The word “vocation” stems from the Latin word vocare which means “to call.” Within each person’s call to holiness is a particular vocation such as the priesthood, marriage, and religious life.

The doctrine of papal infallibility was dogmatically defined in the First Vatican Council’s document Pastor Aeternus in 1870. Of course, this gift of the papal office has its origins in the words of Jesus to St. Peter: “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth...

For those new to the Catholic Faith or for those who are completely unfamiliar with it, relics can seem to be a stumbling block. Why do Catholics have relics? Is this practice something new and created specifically by the Church? It is not the purpose of this essay to explain relics in their totality; rather, I would like to explain the biblical (and one extra-biblical) origin of relics to show that there is a continuity with the ancient Jewish veneration and respect of the remains and garmen...