A Pilgrim's Journey

One of the greatest Catholic teachers in the history of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas is honoured with the titles Doctor of the Church and ...

St. Angela Merici was born in 1474 in Verona (at that time part of the Venetian Republic), and she founded the first teaching congregation o...

It was 19°F outside when I went into the chapel at 5:30 a.m. for Morning Prayer, and it didn’t seem much warmer inside! By the time I bega...

St. Paul had many colleagues and helpers who took part in his missionary journeys, and into whose charge he often entrusted some of the you...

Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two broth...

St. Francis de Sales was urged by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator from ...

Canonized in 2012, St. Marianne Cope (1838-1918) devoted herself to God through her vows as a Franciscan religious and through the care of t...

St. Vincent of Saragossa was one of the Church's three most illustrious deacons, the other two being Stephen and Lawrence. He is also Sp...

January 22nd is set apart as a day of prayer and penance for the legal protection of children who are not yet born. We know that life is th...

St. Agnes was a Roman girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old when she suffered martyrdom for her Faith. Agnes had made a promise, a ...

On January 20th the Church commemorates two great 3rd century martyrs – one a pope, and one a soldier. St. Fabian was simple farmer but was ...

From January 18 through January 25, Christians throughout the world keep the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The official material compo...

“There was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.” -S...

Before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312 AD, back in the days when Christianity was still a persecuted religion, the act of ...

Forty-four years ago, on the feast of St. Anthony of Egypt, my family and I arrived in San Antonio from Rhode Island. We had driven for alm...