A Pilgrim's Journey

St. John Bosco was born near Turin, Italy, in 1815. His father died when John was only two years old, but his mother made sure he received a...

Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them… ...

One of the greatest Catholic teachers in the history of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas is honoured with the titles Doctor of the Church and ...

St. Angela Merici was born in 1474 in Verona (at that time part of the Venetian Republic), and she founded the first teaching congregation o...

St. Paul had many colleagues and helpers who took part in his missionary journeys, and into whose charge he often entrusted some of the youn...

St. Paul was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, and was born in Tarsus, the capitol of Cilicia. Although he was a Roman citizen, he was brought...

St. Francis de Sales was urged by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator from ...

Canonized in 2012, St. Marianne Cope (1838-1918) devoted herself to God through her vows as a Franciscan religious and through the care of t...

St. Vincent of Saragossa was one of the Church's three most illustrious deacons, the other two being Stephen and Lawrence. He is also Sp...

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea,...

St. Agnes was a Roman girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old when she suffered martyrdom for her Faith. Agnes had made a promise, a ...

On January 20th the Church commemorates two great 3rd century martyrs – one a pope, and one a soldier. St. Fabian was simple farmer but was ...

Forty-one years ago today, on the Feast of St. Anthony of Egypt, my family and I arrived in San Antonio from Rhode Island. We had driven for...

From January 18 through January 25, Christians throughout the world keep the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The official material compo...

Before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312 AD, back in the days when Christianity was still a persecuted religion, the act of b...