A Pilgrim's Journey

The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Our Lady of the Atonement Church On December 9, 1531, in Mexico, Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego, a p...

“Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of ...

Pope St. Damasus is one the many popes whose name isn’t immediately recognizable to most people, but whose faithful service in the Chair of ...

Our Lord tells a parable about a lost sheep, recorded in St. Matthew’s Gospel (18:12-14). We hear this Gospel read at Mass on Tuesday in the...

It was our beloved and venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen who famously said, “There are not over a hundred people in the United States who ha...

During Advent our thoughts should include the coming judgement of our Lord Jesus Christ. As we profess in the Creed, "...and He shall c...

St. Ambrose was born around 339 in what is now France, the son of the Roman prefect of Gaul. Following his father's footsteps, Ambrose e...

St. Nicholas was born of Christian parents in the last part of the third century, and was raised in the Faith. His parents died when he was ...

St. John of Damascus or Damascene was one of the principal defenders of the veneration of images against the Iconoclasts, who condemned this...

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

Jesus asked, "What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?" The words were repeated to a young...

We're at the beginning of Advent. It's a time of preparation -- but not simply preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Ou...

Throughout the New Testament there is the eager note sounded again and again about “waiting for the coming our Lord Jesus Christ.” Some of t...

Andrew, like his brother Simon Peter, was a fisherman. He became a disciple of the great St. John the Baptist, but when John pointed to Jesu...

My childhood home at the Phillips Farm in New Hartford, Connecticut. I wrote this several years ago, but I post it nearly every year because...