A Pilgrim's Journey

On October 1st, thirty-nine years ago, I was standing on the Boston Common with about 600,000 others. I was a young Episcopal cleric, and a ...

Marie Thérèse Martin was born into a family of very faithful Catholics, and she was the youngest of five daughters. Her father was a watchma...

O Everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order: mercifully grant that as thy holy ...

The mixed-race child of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, Lawrence Ruiz grew up in Manila and married a local Catholic girl. They had ...

St. Vincent was born of poor parents in a little village in France, in about 1580. He was able to go to school, which was run by a community...

The commemoration of St. Cosmas and St. Damian is one of the most ancient feasts of the Church, and these two martyrs have been honored in t...

In 1061, so the story goes, the lady of the manor of Little Walsingham in Norfolk, a widow named Lady Richeldis, prayed to our Lady asking h...

St. Pius was born in 1887 in Pietrelcina, a town in southern Italy. His family were farmers, and his father worked also as a shepherd to sup...

Almighty and everlasting God, who through godly continency bestowest healing both of body and soul: we humbly beseech thy majesty graciously...

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose...

On September 20, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon, priest and martyr, and Saint Paul Chong Hasang, martyr, and their co...

With our Divine Worship Missal, we have a restoration of some of our traditions which had been temporarily lost to us, and the Ember Days ar...

[At that time, Jesus] went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city...

Born in the year 1542, Robert Bellarmine's family was large and relatively poor. His mother was especially devout and was given to works...

Immediately following the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Church commemorates the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows....