Wherever Catholics live, there will be wine-making, because there will need to be the Eucharist. That truth has given rise to many monasteries and other centers of the Catholic faith with vineyards attached and impressive cellars, some setting the world standard for both holiness and wine-making. In this wide-ranging conversation, Catholic author, homemaker, and wife and mother Emily Stimpson Chapman explores why food and drink are so central to the Catholic faith, as well as to our ordinary lives in this beautiful, wounded world.

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The Mystical Life is, in many ways, the harvest of the soul, the full fruition of every other part of our Catholic life. But what does that mean? Is that really something ordinary Catholics will ever experience? Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle explains in this wide-ranging conversation, sharing insights gleaned from her research into the life of St. Faustina and her friendship with Mother Teresa.

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Our Lady at Fatima asked the visionaries and all of us to pray the Rosary daily for peace in the world. But why? What is so relevant to today about a devotion as well-established and traditional as the Rosary? Rosary expert Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, addresses this and much, much more, as we discuss his classic work Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon.

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Every Christian needs to be developing their “interior life”--but what is the interior life? Why is it so important? And how do we tend to it, like a garden in midsummer? Best-selling author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle offers us answers, insights, and more as she discusses the third section of her classic work of Faustinian spirituality 52 Weeks with Saint Faustina: A Year of Grace and Mercy.

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Meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary can offer us healing and hope – how? Maria V. Gallagher speaks from experience, having borne some heavy crosses in her life and found great hope, healing, and strength in our Lord’s Passion and Our Lady’s Sorrows. Here she speaks making our suffering redemptive, a means of grace for ourselves, our neighbors, and the whole world.

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“Virtue” sounds like such an old-fashioned term, and yet it’s more relevant and necessary than ever. In a hopeful, inspiring conversation, Marian Press author Patrick O'Hearn explains how virtue remains in the core of the Christian life, and demonstrates that the saints want to help us develop the virtues of a Christian, even in this incredibly challenging modern world.

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Pope Benedict XVI famously taught, “Mercy is the central nucleus of the Gospel message; it is the very name of God, the Face with which he revealed himself in the Old Covenant and fully in Jesus Christ, the incarnation of creative and redemptive Love.” Marian Press author and international speaker Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle helps us understand how to live a merciful life, guided by the mystical and practical wisdom of St. Faustina Kowalska, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Pope Leo XIV.

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Sometimes, it seems like lifelong Catholic marriage is impossible in this crazy modern world we live in. But the Church and the saints prove that, by the grace of God, there’s another way, that faithful, fruitful, loving marriages are just as possible as they’ve ever been, says Caitrin Bennett, Catholic wife, mother, and author of Holier Matrimony.

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The Cross stands for the Christian religion in many minds, but it wasn't always so. Marian Press author Dr. Helen Hoffner explores the history and variety of crosses across the ages in her lavishly illustrated The Cross: A Universal Symbol. In this interview, she shares the fruits of her research, and of her life-long Catholic faith.

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Our Lady was there for our Lord during His earthly life. Did you know she’s been there in a similar way for the Church the entirety of her history through apparitions and private revelation? What is private revelation? Why does Mary give us so much hope? Marian Press author Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle discusses all this and more.

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