Christian Saints & Heroes
Inspire: Ordinary Heroes: I Was Blind, But Now I See
By • Catholic Online • 5/3/2010
As our young people embrace the Faith of our Fathers, the Church will be in good hands, very good hands indeed. TUCSON, AZ (Catholic Online) - Yesterday morning, I met my friend Fernando Cuevas at morning mass, and told him that as My Dear Wife and I had to leave for Canada in a few days, we ...
St. Catherine of Siena: Woman of Living Faith, Dynamic Prayer and Heroic Virtue
By • Catholic Online • 4/29/2010
While praying at Peter's tomb, she experienced the great weight of the Church fall on her shoulders, and she offered herself and her suffering as a "victim" for the renewal of the Church. On April 29 of that year, around midday, God called her to Himself. Days before her death, she wrote, "If I ...
Interview: On Lourdes and St. Bernadette
By • Zenit News Agency • 9/9/2008
Elizabeth Ficocelli, author of "Lourdes: Font of Faith, Hope and Charity" is interviewed on the Pilgrimage site and the life of St. Bernadette. COLUMBUS, Ohio (Zenit) - The world today could learn a lot from visionary Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, said the author of a new book on the Marian ...
Honoring Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Catholic Online • 9/5/2008
Let us praise the Lord for this diminutive woman in love with God, a humble Gospel messenger and a tireless benefactor of humanity. In her we honor one of the most important figures of our time. Let us welcome her message and follow her example. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - On this day, ...
Pope Encourages Study and Imitation of the Saints
Zenit News Agency • 8/21/2008
The Pontiff recalled how Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote that the saints are the most important Gospel commentary and represent for us "a real path of access to Jesus." CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Zenit) - Benedict XVI says it is important and advantageous to cultivate devotion to the saints, and ...
Sister Faustina's Confessor to Be Beatified
Zenit News Agency • 8/21/2008
Polish Father Michal Sopocko, Sister Faustina Kowalska's confessor and spiritual director, and principal promoter of the revelations the nun received on Divine Mercy, will be beatified Sept. 28 in Poland. ROME (Zenit) - Sister Faustina's confessor and St. Thérèse's parents are among the six who ...
Living in a 'Mary Moment'
Catholic Online • 8/15/2008
Mary is a model of true humility and a needed antidote to an age of arrogance. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - Several years ago I was an invited guest at a celebration of the life and ministry of a significant evangelical Protestant leader. It was a “black tie” affair, accompanied with all ...
Mary's Choice: Surrender to Love
By • Catholic Online • 8/15/2008
She was the first evangelizer and the first disciple of her own Son Jesus. She gave the first Gospel testimony to her cousin, Elizabeth, without words. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - There are very few records of Mary’s explicit words in the texts of the New Testament of the Bible. ...
Mary’s Prayer: A Way of Holiness
By • Catholic Online • 8/15/2008
We are called to respond to His invitation, to say “Yes” to a relationship with Him. This is what Mary’s Fiat is all about. In saying Yes to God, as Mary did, we are able to discover the path to conversion, to holiness, to authentic spirituality. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - “I am the ...
The Assumption: The Loveliest of Feasts
By • The Catholic Herald (UK) • 8/15/2008
Rationalists deride the doctrine of the Assumption, says Fr. Peter Mullen. But we should proclaim it boldly. LONDON (The Catholic Herald) - GK Chesterton said: "I love my religion and I love especially those parts of it which are generally held to be most superstitious." Many suspect that the ...
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St. Celestine
When the father of this Italian saint died, his good mother brought up her twelve children well, even though they were very poor. "Oh, if I could only have the joy of seeing one of you become a saint!" she use to say. Once when she asked as usual, "which one of you is going to become a saint?" little Peter (who was to become Pope Celestine) ... continue reading
St. Juan Diego
Juan Diego was born in 1474 in the calpulli or ward of Tlayacac in Cuauhtitlan, which was established in 1168 by Nahua tribesmen and conquered by the Aztec lord Axayacatl in 1467; and was located 20 kilometers (14 miles) north of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). On December 9, 1531, a native Mexican named Juan Diego rose before dawn to walk fifteen miles to daily ... continue reading
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St. Teresa of Avila
Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Out of all of this change came Teresa pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner peace. Teresa's father was rigidly honest and pious, but he may have carried his ... continue reading
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St. Michael, the Archangel
St. Michael, the Archangel - Feast day - September 29th The name Michael signifies "Who is like to God?" and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes St. Michael as "one of the chief princes," and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been ... continue reading
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St. Catherine of Sienna Calls Each One of Us to Love God Right Where We Are
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The Vision of St. John Bosco and the Papacy of Benedict XVI
Does the heroic leadership of Pope Benedict XVI represent one more fulfillment of the prophetic vision of the Saint whose Feast we ... continue reading
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