My father came home from his service in the Marines in the South Pacific to marry the redheaded girl of his dreams, whom he’d met at St. Francis De Sales in...
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The history of African American Catholicism began with the arrival of the Spanish settlers in the 16th century in Florida. In fact, on the first page of the...
During Christianity’s earliest centuries, an era of official persecution of Christians, church and state were not only separate but opposed. Then in the...
Some professionals are quitting their day jobs and stepping up to a new spiritual calling. If someone had told Barbara Evans a decade ago that she’d be working...
The mission of Catholic Newman Centers has changed over more than 100 years. In the 1800s, Blessed John Henry Newman wrote that “religious truth is not only a...
An icon of Catholic social justice, Catherine de Hueck Doherty found that living among the poor helped her find stillness and peace. For me, the distinct pull...
The road to sainthood is difficult, but newly canonized Jeanne Jugan knew that patience would bring otherworldly success. In the last few years I have been a...
During the horrors of World War II, Chiara Lubich lived with a group of young women companions in Trent, Italy. “While in the air-raid shelter, we came upon...
I love my Christmas dinnerware. For the past 20 years I’ve served many wonderful feasts on it. Family and friends have gathered around my festive green and red...
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