Pope Pius XII said: “The devotion to the Carmelite scapular has brought down on the world a copious rain of spiritual and temporal graces.” On the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16 ...

The scapular, carrying the powerful promise of escaping hell, remains a popular devotion today. But scapulars can be awkward under certain types of clothes or simply easy to forget in the morning.

There’s no better day than the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to recall the hope and promise in the Brown Scapular. By Joseph Pronechen.

Now even the word “scapular” is a rare sighting, let alone the lovely gentle honest thing itself.

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Swimming With Scapulars is a modern-day Catholic coming-of-age story that takes its author from the austere Catholicism of his Irish-French family in upstate New York to the exotic spiritual ...

When the scapular is worn with faith, it is meant to express and serve the interior faith of believers and their commitment to Jesus Christ. It is not jewelry or a good luck charm. It is not ...

Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network, a globe-spanning Catholic television and radio empire, and who became known as the “zinging nun” as much for her blunt and ...

Pope John Paul II's scapular: a Roman Catholic version of a rabbit's foot What did the late Pope mean by giving his lady friend a 'scapular' to drape over herself? Nothing dodgy, says Peter ...

Father Brouillette: Scapular only item recovered from Father Otis Young's burned body 'Where was the Lord when Otis was suffering that brutal death? The Lord was here," Archbishop Gregory Aymond said.