My grandmother wore one. My lovely bride wears one. I carry one in my shirt pocket. Once they were almost ubiquitous in the Catholic world, so common that I would see them peeking from the necks of ...

In Lickona's "true confessions," we are introduced to a unique and singular voice, but one that is emblematic of a new generation of believers who combine a premodern faith with a postmodern ...

When speaking of the brown scapular, Pope Pius XII once 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 ...

The gift of a scapular is not your standard expression of affection – even in my otherwise Catholic household – but then, the 30-year relationship between the late Pope John Paul II and the ...

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. There’s a frequently republished photo of a young ...

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When the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the English Carmelite, St. Simon Stock, she carried the Carmelite scapular in her hand and told him: "This shall be the privilege for you and for all the ...

According to tradition, the scapular, as it is now known, was given by the Virgin Mary herself to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251. A window at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in ...