A Pilgrim's Journey

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne has a recorded history from the 6th century AD. It was an important center of Christianity not only under St....

The three martyrs we commemorate on August 30th are numbered amongst the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, who suffered death for the Cath...

"The Beheading of St. John the Baptist" ca. 1869 by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The circumstances surrounding the martyrdom of St. J...

St. Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in what is modern-day Algeria. His family was of some substance and highly respected. His father Patriciu...

The circumstances of St. Monica's life could have made her a nagging wife, a bitter daughter-in-law and a despairing parent, yet she did...

In St. John's Gospel, Bartholomew (son of Tolomai) is known by the name Nathaniel.  His home was Cana in Galilee, where the miraculous t...

St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints – she was not really understood by those a...

Our understanding of the queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary has grown over the centuries, but it has its roots in Scripture. At the Annunc...

A young boy named Joseph Sarto grew up in Venetia on June 2, 1835. He was the son of a cobbler – someone who repairs shoes – and he grew up ...

It has been said of St. Bernard that his personality “was so attractive, his power of persuasion so difficult to withstand, that we are told...

St. John Eudes was born on a farm in northern France. He was 79 years old when he died, and with all he accomplished, at the end of his live...

“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be and if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forwa...

King Stephen is a great national hero and the spiritual patron of Hungary – but he was, first of all, a devout Christian. We think of kings ...

August 15th has always been an especially important date for us in our parish because as we celebrate the triumphant mystery of the Assumpti...

On 1 November 1950, His Holiness Pope Pius XII solemnly defined the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in his Apostolic Cons...