There’s more to St. Patrick than shamrocks and beer How a teen of Roman nobility became Ireland‘s ‘Holy Boy.’ How St. Patrick changed Ireland—and the church We...
Author - Damian Costello
Years of prayer on the land kindled a fire in St. Patrick. He escaped from Irish captivity back to the Roman Empire of his birth, only to be shown by the Voice...
Many Catholics know little of St. Patrick beyond the kitschy mascot of clovers, green rivers, and beer. In reality, Patrick is a mythical hero born of blood...
Many people say that the stars proclaim the glory of God. They do, as the brushstrokes of a masterpiece reveal the vision of a great artist. But, as with many...
On December 9, 1965, 49 percent of the televisions in America tuned in to CBS for a new Christmas program created by Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, and Charles...
For modern Catholics, Advent is a season of extreme cultural disjunction between commercialized Christmas and the spiritual preparation for Christ’s birth. The...
We’ve all heard of Squanto, the English-speaking Wampanoag Indian of Thanksgiving fame. No one forgets how he taught the Pilgrims to survive by adding fish...
Growing up, Pope St. John Paul II was one of my dziadzius, or grandfathers. His spirit infused the house of my Polish grandparents, the sprawling, piecemeal...
Autumn is St. John Henry Newman’s time of year. Newman was canonized October 12 and his feast day is October 9. But the fall foliage also reminds me of Newman...
The whole world had collapsed. Once he lived by the sea, embraced by ancient traditions in a thriving community of thousands. Now he was on the run in mountain...
