A Pilgrim's Journey

St. Justin Martyr was an apologist, and was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. He was a Greek and was born i...

The Feast of the Visitation honours the Blessed Virgin Mary, who bore in her womb the Incarnate Word of God. It shows her as the first missi...

One of the scriptural phrases intimately associated with Ascensiontide is that when our Lord ascended into heaven, "he led captivity ca...

At the end of the sixth century it looked like St. Augustine had found his place in life. He was the respected prior of St. Andrew’s monaste...

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid ...

"Rogation" comes from the Latin "rogare," which means "to ask." The Sixth Sunday of Easter and the following t...

St. Bede is one of the five major figures depicted on the large triptych which is over the High Altar at Our Lady of the Atonement Church. T...

St. Rita was born into a happy and faithful Catholic family, and from the time of her childhood she had a very deep desire to live a life pl...

“¡Viva Cristo Rey!” (“Long live Christ the King!”). This was the cry of the “Cristeros,” Catholics who took up arms in the 1920’s in Mexico ...

In the year 1400, there was a terrible plague going throughout what we now know as Italy. In the city of Siena, dozens of people were dying ...

Pope John I became pope in 523, and inherited the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. The Western Empire had been ruled for 3...

This 19th century oil painting of St. Isidore the Farmer is located in Our Lady of the Atonement Church. St. Isidore the Farmer, born into a...

St. Matthias had been a follower of Jesus and was probably one of the seventy-two disciples. After our Lord’s ascension into heaven, the nas...

The famous apparitions of the Virgin Mary to the children of Fatima took place during the summer of 1917, during the time of the First World...

It was on 12th May 2010 that Pope Benedict XVI went to Fatima and prayed before the image of Our Lady, entrusting all priests to her materna...