This year's Lent was particularly challenging, not only due to personal struggles in maintaining Lenten resolutions amidst a backdrop of bleak news but also as a reminder of the world's, and our own, need for a savior, writes Greg Erlandson. Despite these
Born in the Philippines in the mid-17th century, Pedro served as a teenage catechist alongside Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the Ladrones Islands (modern Marianas). He preached Christianity to the Chamorro people and helped to baptize infants, children and adults in the area,
Archbishop of Lima, Peru, Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo is known for his work to better the lives of many poor indigenous people while at the same time reforming the clergy. A lawyer by training, he was elevated to bishop against his will.
Mike Aquilina explores how St. John Chrysostom is often considered an Easter saint for his preaching that led to the saint’s own Palm Sunday and Good Friday. St. John Chrysostom’s Easter glory continues in our own time, as his words of his
As he cared for Christ, St. Joseph, whose feast we celebrate on March 19, is someone to ask for protection in any circumstance to include sharing Jesus with others. With reference to St. Joseph, Pope St. John Paul II said, “This patronage
Born in A.D. 315, St. Cyril of Jerusalem is known for his constancy in faith at the time that the Arian heresy denying the divinity of Christ had spread throughout the Roman Empire. In an atmosphere where the Church was splintered, St.
Today’s saint: St. Patrick, born in A.D. 387 and kidnapped by Irish pirates at 16, spent six years as a slave in Northern Ireland, a period that prepared him for his later mission in Ireland by immersing him in the culture and
On March 14, Pope Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to decree as "venerable" Mother Mary Alphonsa Hawthorne -- also known as Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of an American literary icon and founder of the Congregation of the Dominican
Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of U.S. Sister Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and he recognized the martyrdom of a German priest executed by the Nazis and a German nun and her 14 companions who were raped and
Wife of King Henry I of Germany, Matilda was a Benedictine Oblate and the mother of Otto the Great. Her husband died in 936, and her sons, Otto and Henry, vied for their father’s throne. Matilda supported
Henry’s claim to power. When Otto