Known as the Prince of Angels or Heavenly Guardian, Archangel Michael is depicted as a mighty and courageous warrior. In the Bible, he is mentioned in the book of Daniel, the letter of Jude, and ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is seen at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. In response to the Church’s abuse crisis, some pastors have asked their parishioners to say the prayer to ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is displayed at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. (CNS Photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) St. Michael the Archangel is back, invoked to defend Christians from ...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the ...

Since the late 19th Century, Catholics have recited the Prayer to St. Michael when facing disease, disaster and despair. It proclaims, in part: "St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. … O ...

There are plenty of reasons for invoking the help of the most powerful archangel in today’s battles against the devil. A statue of St. Michael the Archangel putting his sword back into its sheath is ...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, this week responded to a letter in the Wall Street Journal from a priest objecting to the praying of the St. Michael prayer at the end of Mass, ...

In Phrygia, not far from the city of Hieropolis, in a place called Cheretopos, there was a church named for the Archangel Michael, built over a miraculous spring. This church was built by a certain ...