A Pilgrim's Journey

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...

Most saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is frequently remembered for his bad tem...

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...

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...

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...

GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that we, who year by year devotedly keep this holy ordinance of abstinence, may serve thee acceptably ...

St. Theodore was born in Tarsus, and after he became a priest, he came to the attention of the Pope, who decided to send him to Britain to b...

The Ember Days are four separate sets of three days within the same week — specifically, the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday — within the ci...

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

The Church had been without a pope for about a year because of the persecution of the Emperor Decius when Cornelius was elected Bishop of Ro...

Site of the Crucifixion, Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. After the crucifixion of our Lord on the hill of Calvary, and after his subsequent ...

St. John Chrysostom is known as one of the greatest preachers in the long history of the Church, and surely his homilies form a major legacy...