Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (1271-1336) Elizabeth (or Isabel) was born in 1271 to Peter III, King of Aragon, Spain, and Constantia, daughter of Manfred,
In the evening of her wedding day, with the music of the marriage hymn ringing in her ears, Cecilia, a rich, beautiful, and noble Roman
November 1—ALL SAINTS The Church pays, day by day, a special veneration to some of the holy men and women who have helped to establish
As a biographer of Saint John Paul II, whose feast day is October 22, I’m often asked if I have a favorite statement of the
Reflection—“My God and my all,” St. Francis’ constant prayer, explains both his poverty and his wealth. St. Francis, the son of a merchant of Assisi,
Chapter 1: Early Childhood My dearest Mother, it is to you, to you who are in fact a mother twice over to me, that I
There is a movement afoot that claims that the Roman Catholic Church was long insensitive to the plight of black slaves or to the institution
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Pope Francis by phone on Friday and thanked him for his prayers. The phone call came the day after
Freedom is indisputably one of the paradigmatic and quintessential values of our Western culture, so much so that we may be led to conclude that
From the Preface… Carrie Wiping his shoes as he shuffled through the door, he glanced in my direction. I could tell he was pondering something
From the Epilogue… With few words, Bishop Patrick dismissed his work in Ireland. “It would be tedious,” he wrote, “to give a detailed account of
Blessed Gerard founded the Hospitaller Order of St. John (later known as the Order of Malta) in the mid-eleventh century, circa 1070. He died in
By means of prayer, the soul is enabled to lift itself near to God and thus live a spiritual life – that of Christian perfection.
It is well documented that many of the parents of the saints desired to dedicate their lives completely to God as priests and religious. But
In June 2014, my family experienced something special. We had a private Mass in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It was our
“Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily
The current battle playing out in the public eye between a Russian authoritarian leader and the people of the Ukraine is unfortunately nothing new. This
In February of 1935, a nun, obscure at the time, named Sr. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Most Blessed Sacrament was being summoned to visit
Zélie was so in love with the Holy Eucharist that, five weeks before her death, weakened by cancer, she still attended Mass. Throughout their lives,
“Like St. Augustine before her, our Martina, when she was still quite little, said once on All Saints’ Day, ‘As I think of it, mother,
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