A Pilgrim's Journey

The Pantheon, built originally in 27 B.C. and rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian c. 126 A.D. to honor pagan Roman gods, was consecrated by Pope ...

In the Lord's Prayer we pray for God to reign in our lives and in our world: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in hea...

Known as the "spiritual father of Cuba," St. Anthony Mary Claret was a missionary, a religious founder, a social reformer, Chaplai...

Karol Josef Wojtyla was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. His mother died when he was just a young boy, and he was raised by his father. Eve...

Blessed Charles of Austria was a remarkable man – someone who was at the very center of 20th century history, but who treasured his Catholic...

St. Paul of the Cross was born at Ovada in the Republic of Genoa, January 3, 1694. When he was still young he was inspired by God to found a...

There are eight men whom we know as the Martyrs of North America (known also as the Canadian Martyrs), and they worked in the area of upstat...

 "St. Luke" by Master Theodoric (14th cent) painted on the upper section of wall in the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Karlstein Cast...

St. Ignatius was the second Bishop of Antioch, and had been a disciple of the Apostle St. John. There is a tradition which says that he was ...

St. Margaret Mary was born on July 22, 1647 in Burgundy, France, and was the fifth child of seven in her family. When she was eight years ol...

St. Teresa of Avila was born in 1515, and she lived at an exciting time in history. Columbus had sailed to the new world only about twenty y...

Born c. 1003, St. Edward was the last Saxon king to rule for any meaningful length of time in England. The Saxons were a Germanic people who...

St. Wilfrid was born in Northumberland in 634. We know something of his life from the writings of the Venerable Bede in the early eighth cen...

On November 25, 1881 a baby was born to a very large and very poor family of sharecroppers in a little town in northern Italy. His name was...

The Shrine of Blessed John Henry Newman in the Baptistry at Our Lady of the Atonement Church. John Henry Newman, the 19th century's most...