Anthony Maria Gianelli was born in 1789 into a middle-class family living near Genoa in the north of Italy. As a child, people were oft...

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God. Bl. Robert Southwell

Norbert was born in the year 1080 in Xanten, Germany, to a noble and wealthy family. Norbert lived a life of pleasure until one day he ...

In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our ...

Boniface was born Winfrid around the year 680 to a respected and noble English family, and it was to his father’s great displeasure that, ...

  Hope of a Hopeless World If there is an age who...

* by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira A friendly reader asked me to explain why the Church has been fought so fiercely throughou...

The Father takes pleasure in looking upon the heart of the most Holy Virgin Mary, as the masterpiece of His hands; for we always like ou...

On October 15, 1563 Francis Caracciolo was born into a noble Italian family. When he was twenty-two, he developed a skin disease simila...

The particular object of this devotion  [to the Sacred Heart of Jesus] is the immense love of the Son of God which induced Him to delive...

Charles Lwanga was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who were converted from paganism by the Society of Missionaries of Africa. Chief o...

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely. St. Thomas Aquinas

Although not much is known about these two early martyrs, we do know that Marcellinus was a priest in Rome and Peter was an exorcist wh...

The feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to her cousin St. Elizabeth was established throughout the Church in the thirteenth or f...

The saints in heaven, seeing God face to face, love Him above all things, because they see with the most perfect evidence that God is bet...

I would rather die than do a thing which I know to be a sin. St. Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc’s story is nothing but extraordinary. Born in Domremy, Champagne, in 1412, she was a peasant girl who received from on high...

*General Douglas MacArthur was so inspired by Samuel Ullman’s poem that he popularized it and kept a framed copy in his office while Sup...

He remains among us until the end of the world. He dwells on so many altars, though so often offended and profaned. St. Maximilian Kol...

William Arnaud, a Dominican, and companions were sent to Toulouse in the South of France by Pope Gregory IX to combat the Albigensian h...

In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips; never suffer it to leave y...

Germanus, one of the glories of the Church in France, was born near Autun, about 496. From his early youth he was exceedingly pious, ne...

Children in a family without love become rebellious, recalcitrant, stubborn, selfish and cruel. Adults who live in a loveless or Godless...

One day, the story goes, Gregory was walking through the Roman slave market when he noticed three fair, golden-haired boys. He asked th...

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot c...

Philip Neri, known as “The Apostle of Rome,” was Florentine by birth, one of four children born to a notary. At...

“I will take away not the grace but the feeling of grace. Though I will seem to leave you I will be closer to you.” Our Lord to St. Mar...

Pope Gregory VII was born Hildebrand in Tuscany, Italy. Little else is known of his early life. Hailed, historically, as one of the gre...

Fatima custodians often meet people who know little or nothing about the Catholic faith.  A few years ago I had such an experience in Fl...

Modernism leads to the annihilation of all religion. The first step in this direction was taken by Protestantism; the second is made by ...

St. Eucherius of Lyons, describes St. Vincent of Lérins as “a man pre-eminent in eloquence and learning”. Little is known of his early ...

Giovanni Battista de Rossi was born in the Piedmontese v...

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus...

O loving Jesus, increase my patience according as my sufferings increase. St. Rita of Cascia

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, which states that God i...

Rita was born in Roccaborena, Italy in 1381 to aged p...

Christopher Magallanes was born in 1869 in the province of Guadalajara, Mexico...

Every grace granted to man has three degrees in order: by God it is communicated to Christ, from Christ it passes to the Virgin, and fr...

Bernardine, “The Apostle of Italy,” was born on September 8, 1380 in the Tuscan town of Massa Marittima. His father, a member of the no...

 Let the storm rage and the sky darken – not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her,...

St. Dunstan, most famous of the Anglo-Saxon saints, was born near Glastonbury of a noble family closely connected to the ruling house. ...

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and ...

St. John I was a native of Siena in Tuscany and was one of the seven deacons of Rome when he was elected to the papacy at the death of ...

Saint Louis de Montfort tells the story of a young girl of noble station named Alexandra, who had been miraculously converted and enroll...

Meditate well on this: Seek God above all things. It is right for you to seek God before and above everything else, because the majesty ...

Paschal was born in Terra Hermosa, Spain on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 1540 the son of Martin Baylon and Isabel Jubera, pious day labore...

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times ...

Little is known of the life of St. Brendan. Though his character is steeped in misty legend, he did very much exist and it is fairly cer...