A Pilgrim's Journey

The commemoration of St. Joseph the Worker falls on the first day of May, the month that is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was f...

Each day's visit to my pond is almost like finding another Claude Monet painting!

Pope St. Pius V - Michael Ghislieri - was born into a poor family on 17 January 1504. He spent his childhood working as a shepherd, until h...

In observing the feast of St. Catherine, I remember the many pilgrimages to Italy we've made over the years, and we have gone frequently...

St. Catherine was born in Siena in the year 1347, and she was the last of 25 children born to her parents. Her father was a wealthy man in t...

It was 806 years today that the foundation stones were laid at Salisbury Cathedral. Work began in 1220 at the east end of the Cathedral, w...

The life of St. Louis de Montfort is inextricably bound to his work of promoting genuine devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In fact, his ...

On April 28, 1841, a band of native warriors entered the hut of a missionary priest, Father Peter Chanel on the island of Futuna in the New...

Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a th...

John Mark, later known simply as Mark, was Jewish by birth. He was the son of the woman named Mary in whose home was the Cenacle or "u...

Fifty years ago on April 24th, when I was a young man of twenty-six, I was ordained as an Anglican priest in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church,...

St. Fidelis was born Mark Rey and took the name of "Fidelis" when he joined the Capuchin Order at the age of 35 in 1612. He was b...

St. George was born in Cappadocia in what is now Turkey, sometime in the third century. His father died when George was still young and he w...

What is it about faith and good works which makes them so inextricably bound together? Together they are like a single flame which gives bot...

"I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe - that unless I believe, I sh...