A Pilgrim's Journey

St. John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli at Sotto il Monte, Italy, in the Diocese of Bergamo on 25 November 1881. He was the fourth ...

On 25 September 1843, in the simple church dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas which he had built at Littlemore, John Henry Newman preac...

It has been said that St. John Henry Newman "wrote himself into the Church." If there is any truth in that, then it took place on ...

John Henry Newman, the 19th century's most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Angli...

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 confuse...

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, 15...

There’s a thread running through these scripture readings, bringing together different elements of life which are basic to our human condit...

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 ...

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 p...

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...

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