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...

“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...

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 –...

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...

Jesus said, "A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, `Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' And he answered, `I w...

Saints are usually remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, and St. Jerome certainly had many qualities whic...

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...