As Jesus prepared to enter his Passion, he climbed 28 stairs to meet Pontius Pilate. Two thousand years later, pilgrims from across the world travel to Rome to venerate and prayerfully ascend the stairs, meditating on the Passion and death of the
The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky chose John 12:24 as the epigraph for his famous novel The Brothers Karamazov. The verse, one of my favorite verses of Scripture, reads, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the
On December 6, 2018, Colleen O’Rourke- Heredia received a life-altering phone call. After experiencing medical symptoms that summer, she had visited several doctors in search of an explanation. An oncologist was on the line with the results of a biopsy: Colleen had
Sister Mary Grace still remembers when she, as a novice, trained with Navy SEALs. “We were invited to Long Island on a beach just to kind of get some insight and inspiration from … Navy SEALs,” she recently revealed during a new
The Seventh Last Word: "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." (Lk 23:46)
We celebrate this Fourth Sunday of Lent because we have seen the sign of love: the glory of the Crucified One, the cross, the wood of our salvation.
Women facing infertility are urged to remember they are not alone. Catholic women, through their experiences and support ministries, highlight the importance of community, faith, and recognizing one’s inherent value and potential for life-giving contributions beyond biological motherhood. They advocate for embracing
Dorothy Day's principal lasting influence on American Catholicism may have been to show a faith-based alternative to secularist progressivism. In 2023, Pope Francis wrote the foreword to a new edition of Day's 1938 memoir about her conversion to Catholicism, "From Union Square
The Sixth Last Word: "It is finished." (Jn 19:30)
"I cannot understand," says Blessed Carlo Acutis, "why many people are so concerned with the beauty of their bodies rather than spending time on the beauty of their souls." The Italian teenager, a millennial, is widely known for his deep devotion to