St. Michael the Archangel is back, invoked to defend Christians from the snares of the devil. Or at least his prayer is. The Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel is now a staple of liturgies in ...

Yet it is impossible to miss the statue of St. Michael The Archangel, chiseled in gleaming white marble. I always took my Wednesday afternoon campus tours through the Gasson Hall rotunda.

Many Catholics can, at the drop of a hat, recite the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel — the famous petition to that venerable saint to “defend us in battle” and “cast into hell Satan.” ...