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 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...

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

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...

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 ...

Born into a faithful Catholic family, Marie Thérèse Martin was the youngest of five daughters. Her father was a watchmaker, and her mother, ...

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 ...

Jesus said to the Pharisees, "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. An...

St. Vincent was born of poor parents in a little village in France, in about 1580. He was able to go to school, which was run by a community...