A Pilgrim's Journey

For untold centuries on the first day of Lent the Pope has gone to St. Sabina's Church on the Aventine hill, built on the site of the ma...

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

These seven men were the founders of the Servite Order, a community instituted for the special purpose of cultivating the spirit of penance...

This editorial, printed a few years ago in the New Hampshire Union Leader, seems most appropriate for today: Washington's Birthday Edito...

As we prepare to enter fully into Lent, it is a time when our Holy Mother the Church especially uses all her rich resources to bring us back...

In 2026 the liturgical celebration of the Solemnity of the Chair of St. Peter for members of the Personal Ordinariate is transferred to Mon...

Tradition teaches us that St. Valentine, along with St. Marius, aided the Christian martyrs during the Claudian persecution. In addition to...

Cyril and Methodius were brothers who were born in Thessalonica in the 9th century, where their father was an army officer. This was a part...

The Venerable (soon to be Blessed) Fulton J. Sheen gave brilliant presentations in his television series "Life Is Worth Living" in...

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was promulgated in 1854, and it was just four years later that the Blessed Virgin appeared under the...

Twins often share the same interests and ideas with an equal intensity, so it is no surprise that Scholastica and her twin brother, Benedic...

On February 8, the Church commemorates the life of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Suda...

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be r...

Nagasaki, Japan, is known in history as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped in 1945 during the last stages of World War II...

Saint Agatha was born in Sicily, and is one of the many brave and faithful martyrs of the 3rd century. Her family was a wealthy and importa...