A Pilgrim's Journey

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...

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

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 ...

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his ...

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

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...

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

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...

Advent begins a new liturgical year. This is a time of preparation so that our hearts can be made ready for the two advents of our Lord 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...

Our Lord teaches us that “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” So in giving thanks for the blessings of this ...

The account of the life and death of St. Catherine of Alexandria was recorded by Eusebius in about the year 320, just a few years after her ...

Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and the Holy Martyrs of Vietnam are 117 individuals who endured tremendous suffering and eventual death because of the...

St. Clement I of Rome (92-101) was one of the first popes. According to St. Ireneus, he was the third after Peter, following Pope Linus and ...

A little over a century ago in Mexico an evil and militantly anti-Catholic government instituted and enforced laws against the Church in an ...