Saint Fidelis was born Mark Rey in 1577, at Sigmaringen, Prussia, and was first a practicing lawyer who was a zealous advocate for the poor. Disgusted by injustice in the legal profession, Mark Rey chose to enter the Capuchin friars and took
As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group began to pray for a miracle.
Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man, "Paulo G.," in Uberlandia, Brazil, as
Considered the Father of Scholasticism, Saint Anselm was born in Aosta, Italy, and died in Canterbury, England, where he defended the rights of the Church over the state while writing philosophical and theological works laying the groundwork for the great scholars of
Poland's church is seeking the beatification of a young lay missionary, Helena Kmiec, who was stabbed to death in a bungled robbery shortly after starting work with Catholic nuns at a children's home in Bolivia in 2017.
A reader asks: “Given that the single celibate life is not considered a vocation, how is it possible for a Catholic with same-sex attraction to become a saint or contribute to the Church in a meaningful way, since the Church prohibits him
A reader asks: “Why is Saint Jude pictured with a flame on his head? He wasn’t the only one at Pentecost and I haven’t seen anyone else depicted this way.” As Monsignor Charles Pope explains, “Almost all official answers to the meaning
Born in Lourdes, France, in 1844, St. Bernadette Soubirous suffered from severe asthma and lived in abject poverty. In 1858, she was granted a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a cave on the banks of the Gave River near Lourdes.
On March 8 of this year, a film titled "Cabrini" was released; that day is also International Women's Day. The film is the story of an extraordinary woman, an immigrant to the United States, an advocate for the poor and a saint.
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St. Vincent Ferrer, known as the "Angel of Judgment," was a Spanish Dominican friar who, in the early 1400s, dedicated his life to preaching across Europe, aiming to convert non-Christians, reunite heretics and schismatics with the faith, and inspire sinners towards penance.
The Church calls us higher through the lives of the saints, through one person after another who experienced the mercy of God and knew he had to bring that mercy to the world. When we hear these stories, we begin to realize