Tag: Lent

Anyone who has seen the classic movie "Song of Bernadette," will remember the dramatic conflict when church authorities did not believe the poor peasant...

With her auspicious beginnings in protestant early America, one would never suspect that Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton would become the founder of a religious...

With no public Masses available in-person, the editor wanted to provide a Sunday homily for readers. So he reached into the branches of his...

In this time of modern pandemic, meet a little-known saint who came from nobility, but led a life serving the sick and the poor. Virginia...

WASHINGTON — This Lent is one for the record books. Parish fish fries, prayer services, Stations of the Cross, and daily and Sunday Masses are...

After visiting Philadelphia’s spring flower show, my daughter and her 5-year-old were returning home on the commuter train. Awareness of the new coronavirus outbreak...

She was weakened physically by smallpox, but it couldn't keep her strong spirit from accomplishing great things. Meet French-born American Saint Theodora Guerin, the...

Like the pooka and the kelpie, St. Brigid of Kildare may have been a mythical Celtic creature -- or she may be one of...

She spent most of her life in an area of France less than 50 miles big. She lived in cloister, devoting her time to...

Lent is a time of sacrifice. We strive to unite ourselves with the suffering of Jesus, walking with him in the desert, agonizing with...