A Pilgrim's Journey

John Henry Newman, the 19th century's most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglic...

St. Dionysius (Denis, as he is known to us) was born someplace in Italy, sometime during the 3rd century. In fact, for years he was confused...

The commemoration of Our Lady of the Rosary, also known as Our Lady of Victory, recalls an historic event which took place on October 7, 157...

St. Bruno founded a religious order, the Carthusians, which is the most demanding, the most strict and the most difficult in which to live –...

The priestly zeal of Francis Xavier Seelos took him to many places, but always with the same purpose; namely, to help people know the great ...

“My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He digged it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watc...

St. Francis of Assisi was baptized with the name Giovanni (John), but his father, who was a cloth merchant and who had lots of business in F...

The Transitus of St. Francis is traditionally celebrated by Franciscans all over the world on October 3rd. This is the vigil of the Feast of...

God shows His love to us in many ways, and one of the most comforting and constant expressions of this is that He entrusts each of us to a p...

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, and St. Jerome certainly had those qualities, but h...

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. Wenceslaus, duke of Bohemia, was born about the year 907 at Prague, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). His father was killed in battle wh...

Amongst the Catholic doctrines most troublesome to many Protestants (and many Orthodox, too) is that of papal infallibility. Perhaps it conj...