What would you do if someone you knew claimed to be a Christian but also professed beliefs that were dangerous to his health, his relationships, and even his salvation? Dominic de Guzman’s response was to […]
Saint Camillus de Lellis founded a religious order that cares for the sick all over the world. But in the United States, his feast day is translated to another date so that Americans can honor […]
Technically, Antonio Rosmini—who was born in 1797 and who died on July 1, 1855—has only been declared a blessed by the Catholic Church, not (yet) a saint. But even that declaration by the Church was […]
When Pope Francis surprised the Catholic world on October 7, 2021, announcing that he was about to make Saint Irenaeus of Lyon a Doctor of the Church, the reasons he gave weren’t that surprising. After […]
Catholic saints sometimes become popular for strange reasons. Saint Nicholas, bishop of the early Church, may have inspired the legend of Saint Nick, but he bore little resemblance to today’s chubby Santa Claus. Saint Ambrose […]
Saint Dymphna, whose feast day is May 30, is commonly known as the patron saint of mental illness. But the details we have about Dymphna’s life are very limited, and she herself was not mentally […]
Affection for Blessed Imelda Lambertini, whose feast day is May 12, has spread all over the world since 1910. That’s when Pope Saint Pius X lowered the age of reception of First Holy Communion to […]
For as long as there has been a Church, Church leaders have often found themselves at odds with government leaders. The argument may be over domestic goals, foreign wars, influence peddling, heresies, or inconvenient moral […]
If the Catholic Church had only investigated the virtue and diplomatic skills of Saint Catherine Benincasa of Siena (1347-1380), there would have been ample evidence to canonize her. After all, besides living a virtuous life, […]
Two men were born in the late nineteenth century in Italy, were ordained as priests, became widely known during their own lifetimes, and are now canonized saints. While Saint Gaetano Catanoso had much in common […]
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