A Pilgrim's Journey

The Emperor Valerian (253-60) had a hatred for the Church, and he didn’t hesitate to vent his rage. He mandated that all Christians had to t...

It was an astonishing sight for Peter, James, and John, when they saw the Lord Jesus Christ radiating His divine glory, talking with Moses a...

From  The Church's Year of Grace , Pius Parsch: The Basilica of St. Mary Major is important to Christendom for three reasons. - It stand...

Having spent three and a half decades as a pastor, and for most of those years also responsible for founding and guiding a parish school, I ...

St. John Vianney, also known as the Holy Curé de Ars, was born May 8, 1786 in Dardilly, near Lyon, France to a family of farmers. He was an ...

This account of the life of St. Peter Julian Eymard is excerpted from the  Saint of the Day  by Leonard Foley, O.F.M. Born in La Mure d'...

Eusebius was the founder of the canons regular, priests living under a religious rule and dedicated to pastoral work. The canons regular was...

[The people said to Jesus,] “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe in you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the ...

The Shrine of St. Ignatius at the Church of the Gesu in Rome. St. Ignatius of Loyola was born at Loyola in the mountains of northern Spain i...

Our first thought upon hearing the name of St. Martha is probably the recollection of a woman preparing a meal for the Lord Jesus, upset tha...

According to tradition, St. Joachim and St. Anne have come to us as being the names of the parents of Mary, the Mother of God. They are not ...

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a multitude followed him, because they saw ...

St. James the Greater (meaning the Elder) and his brother John were partners in the fishing business with two other brothers, Peter and Andr...

St. Sharbel Makhluf is a Maronite saint, a member of the ancient Eastern Catholic Church of Antioch.  It was in Antioch that Christ's fo...

On July 23rd the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Bridget of Sweden. Bridget was a mystic and a visionary, and she received visions of...