Fulton Sheen's Miracle: An Interview with Bonnie Engstrom
Catholics are eagerly awaiting the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose profound, practical, and even electrifying teaching has pierced hearts around the world.This past July, the Cat...
La Novena Eficaz de las tres Avemarías
Este artículo fue traducido del inglés original por Christina Gillam. Hay una tradición centenaria de rezar tres Avemarías cada día en honor a Virgen María, y para pedir su ayuda a lo largo de nues...
4 Surprising Lessons On Patience From Saint Bernadette
The Good Catholic series Heroic Virtue focuses on the lives of the saints and the virtues that they model. One of these saints is Saint Bernadette Soubirous, whose life was an example of patience—b...
Why Our Patron Saints Bring Us Closer To God
I have a number of special patron saints who I often turn to for intercessory help. Being a mother of nine children, I have certainly kept Saint Anthony busy, and he always comes through. Ove...
Saints Thomas More & John Fisher: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads
On June 22, the Catholic Church celebrates two great English saints and martyrs: one a bishop, the other a lawyer and family man. Both of these saints lived out their vocations faithfully and gave ...
A Patron Saint For Alcoholism
Venerable Matt Talbot, whose feast day is June 19*, is considered the patron of men and women struggling with alcoholism. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Matt was one of thirteen children. His father, wh...
St. Rita of Cascia: Patron Saint of the Impossible
May 22 is the feast day of St. Rita, an Augustinian nun from 14th-century Cascia, Italy. She is the patroness of impossible causes and hopeless circumstances because of her difficult and disappoint...
Catholic Father's Day Gift Guide
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years....
Three Simple Ways to Grow in Holiness This Summer
Although the new year begins in January, many of us think of summer and the end of a school year as a new time to start again.As a graduate student I definitely feel a desire for a fresh start afte...
A Guide to the Catholic Liturgical Calendar
Christianity isn't just lived. It's celebrated. That's because our faith isn't merely about doctrine. It includes a plethora of saints, historical events, and divine mysteries that ...