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Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina is the author of many books. Visit fathersofthechurch.com.

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A couple prays before a prayer altar set up for Dia de los Muertos at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles in an undated photo. (Victor Alemán)

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Praying for dead loved ones in November comes with a special perk

Mike Aquilina|Oct 30, 2025|3 Min Read

Evagrius is depicted in a manuscript from Kaffa in the Armenian monastery of St. Anthony the Great, containing the text of the Lives of the Desert Fathers of Egypt. (Wikimedia Commons)

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The banished Christian monk who influenced Buddhism

Mike Aquilina|Oct 13, 2025|9 Min Read

St. Augustine (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

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How Augustine’s ‘City of God’ could shape Pope Leo’s pontificate

Mike Aquilina|Sep 29, 2025|7 Min Read

Blessed Bartolo Longo, who was born in 1841, in an undated painting. (CNS/Courtesy Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii)

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Satan, hating the pope, and the rosary: The story of a soon-to-be saint

Mike Aquilina|Sep 3, 2025|4 Min Read

Jane Greer in an undated photograph. (Jim Luptak)

Remembering Jane Greer, the heartland poet who was uniquely Catholic

Mike Aquilina|Aug 20, 2025|6 Min Read

A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine hall of the Vatican Library.(CNS/Carol Glatz)

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Nicaea at 1,700: The council (and creed) that saved the Catholic Church

Mike Aquilina|Jul 23, 2025|8 Min Read

Pope Leo XIII is depicted in this official Vatican portrait. He laid the foundation for modern Catholic social teaching with his landmark 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” addressing the rights and dignity of workers in the face of industrialization. (OSV News/Library of Congress)

From Leo I to Leo XIII, the new pope's name is significant for past and future

Mike Aquilina|May 22, 2025|4 Min Read

“St. Augustine,” by Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674, French. (Wikimedia Commons)

A guide to Pope Leo XIV's 'Augustinianism'

Mike Aquilina|May 19, 2025|6 Min Read

Pope Francis’ tomb in the side aisle of the Basilica of St. Mary Major April 27. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis' burial place about piety, but also identity

Mike Aquilina|May 5, 2025|3 Min Read

Five Spanish Franciscan missionaries, Father Pedro de Corpa, Father Blas Rodríguez, Father Miguel de Añon, Brother Antonio de Badajóz, and Father Francisco de Veráscola were martyred in 1597 in the present-day state of Georgia. (Diocese of Savannah via Wikimedia Commons)

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Marriage: The one thing worth dying over for these martyrs

Mike Aquilina|Feb 27, 2025|5 Min Read

One of the requirements for receiving a plenary indulgence is to go to Mass and receive holy Communion. (Victor Alemán)

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How to get the Jubilee indulgence

Mike Aquilina|Jan 20, 2025|1 Min Read

Archbishop José H. Gomez processes into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to kick off the Mass opening the Jubilee of Hope behind a special processional cross that will be displayed during the Jubilee Year. (Victor Alemán)

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What going into ‘Jubilee mode’ means for Catholics

Mike Aquilina|Jan 20, 2025|5 Min Read

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