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St. Conrad of Piacenza
Conrad was a member of one of the most noble families of Piacenza. He married while...
Praying to the Saints with Aquinas
Throughout his theological career, Saint Thomas Aquinas named six reasons why people...
Cultivate the Right Attitude to Sin this Lent
I had concluded Holy Mass in a parish and was rushing for my next engagement when...
St. Peter Damian
The medieval Italian bishop St. Peter Damian (1007-1072) was born in Ravenna, where...
The Passing of a Saintly Centenarian
Shortly before her 102nd birthday, on October 24, 2023, Wanda Poltawska passed into...
The Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle
Today is the Feast of the “Cathedra” or Chair of St. Peter, a recurrence dating...
The Second Sunday of Lent: the Mystery of Glory on the...
Today, high on a mountain, Jesus briefly draws back the veil of His humanity to...
St. Ethelbert
Ethelbert was born into Britain’s royalty in the year 552. He was the son of Eormenric,...
Saints Cyril and Methodius
St. Cyril (827?-869) and St. Methodius (815?-885) were brothers who became famous...
St. Catherine de Ricci
Born in Florence, Italy, in 1522, Saint Catherine was baptized Alexandrina. When...
Finding Purpose through Christlike Prayer
I recently visited a religious sister who was hospitalized with a terminal case...
Lenten Kitchens
Do your Lenten traditions include a spring cleaning of your kitchen? For our Catholic...
Lent Should Hurt, But We Aren’t Alone
Lent is a liturgical season brimming with immense graces. It is a time when we are...
St. Claude de la Colombiere
Claude de la Colombiere was beatified in 1929 and canonized by Pope John Paul II...
Ash Wednesday and Right Relation to the Truth
It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men,...
Catholic Guilt is Not a Thing
In 1905, G.K. Chesterton published a letter to the editor in the Daily Times, the...
Saint John Leonardi
Giving Unto Death St. John Leonardi was born in 1541 in Lucca, Italy. While studying...
