A Pilgrim's Journey

With the lives of so many early martyrs shrouded in legend, we are fortunate to have the record of the courage of Perpetua and Felicity fro...

At that time: the disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" An...

Traditionally the Church lays before us three specific activities to involve us especially (but not exclusively) during the Lenten season: p...

Jesus said, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."  - St. Luke 9:23 Je...

In days gone by, the Pope, as the Bishop of Rome, would walk barefoot to St. Sabina's Church on the Aventine hill, built on the site of...

This is the time of the year when our Holy Mother the Church uses all her rich resources to bring us back to holiness, back to wholeness in...

Fasting is recommended by the Sacred Scriptures and is practiced by the Church as a means of atonement for sin and commending individuals an...

St. Casimir known to the people of Poland as "The Peace-maker," was the third of the thirteen children of Casimir IV, King of Pol...

Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia in 1858, into a very wealthy and prominent family. She had an excellent education and traveled wid...

[Jesus said to his disciples,] “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own f...

Happy St. David’s Day, as the title of this post says. My Welsh ancestors would want me to make mention of our great patron for his feast da...

Over the years of his ministry a priest hears many thousands of confessions. It is one of his great privileges, to pronounce the words of ab...

What does it mean to “live our faith”? Our Catholic faith is not simply an abstract system of beliefs, teaching us only to believe certain...

At that time: when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that the Son of man is?...

Those who make the greatest difference in this world are often the least known... a parent who lovingly raises a child with a knowledge of G...