Tag: Lent

More than 300 years ago, the daughter of a rich and connected French family became the founder of a religious order that focused on...

A traditional way to approach the Lenten practice of almsgiving is to give from the excess that you create by fasting. For example, according to...

Gianna Beretta Molla was a model of the successful twentieth century woman: She had an advanced degree and was a working mother. She loved...

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...

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...

Each year in the days before Lent, my husband and I share a list of what we plan to give up that year. Last...

"We must love with our eyes open," Canterbury's Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able...

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