Tag Archives: Purgatory

Butterflies ‘” Symbolism and Meanings

Butterflies are very colorful and the way they softly and gently fly into the air is simply magnificent. A lot of people love butterflies and they let butterflies stay in their gardens, have preserved displays of butterflies, or for special events such as birthdays or weddings, they give butterfly favors. But apart from the beauty […]

The Indulgence Controversy and the Protestant Reformation

In the 16th century, the immense wealth which the Church derived from great political power had begun to corrupt it. Many joining the clergy for less than purely religious reasons, and many of the clergy, including the pontiffs, succumbed to avarice and fornication. The Catholic Church of the 15th and 16th centuries was marked by […]

Haunted Chicago: The Tortured Souls of Saint Rita’s

  The church organ suddenly, shrill and dissonant, in the morning, in 1961. Its unholy cacophony roused the fifteen parishioners of St. Rita from the silence of the devotions of all the faithful departed, and spontaneously turned to the choir in the opposite building to look up. see who would violate their worship. When they […]