Virginia Durkin O'Shea, Dialog Staff

Most Catholics have heard of Father Damien of Molokai and his work with the lepers in Hawaii. But did you also know about his...

She was a simple woman who worked as a nurse and spent the last years of her life alone and in poverty. She didn't...

Not much is known about the life of St. Martha, except for the few mentions she receives in the Gospels. What we do know is...

Even though she lived more than 1600 years ago, St. Monica faced some of the same problems of today’s women. Her husband had a...

Our sacred churches in the Holy Land might not even exist if it were not for the journeys of one remarkable woman: St. Helena. Helena...

St. Clare of Assisi was one of the first women Franciscans and founder of a worldwide order of contemplative sisters, choosing to leave a...

St. Perpetua, a noblewoman, and St. Felicity, a slave, were bound together in death when they were executed for the crime of being Christian...

Born in an era between the voyages of Columbus and the Protestant Reformation, St. Teresa of Avila seemed destined from birth to have a...

“Refuse God nothing … We must do all through love.” This beautiful advice comes from a woman who gave her heart to serving God’s poor...

Although she lived in medieval times, St. Hildegarde of Bingen could definitely been seen as a “Renaissance woman.” Mystic, herbalist, scientist, composer, brewer, theologian...