A Pilgrim's Journey

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood ...

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...

Many of our greatest saints and holy people knew that they could raise others up by helping to educate them. Eulalie Durocher was one such ...

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

A very short distance from Chiesa Nuova in Assisi, off an alley leading to the Basilica of Santa Chiara, is a tiny oratory, San Francesco Pi...

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 ...

Linked forever to the annual Feast of Divine Mercy on the Octave Day of Easter, along with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy recited by many at 3:...

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 Vigil of the Feast of St. Francis, known as the Transitus, traditionally is celebrated by Franciscans all over the world on October 3rd,...

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...

  The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" And the Lord said, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you c...

On October 1, 1979, I was standing on the Boston Common with about 600,000 others. I was a young Episcopal cleric at the time. A Catholic ...

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...

St. Jerome - a brilliant scholar and devoted saint - was a man who would not have been known for having social grace. In fact, it's jus...