Born: c. 1 CE Died: c. 96 or 107 CE Feast day: January 26 Patron saint of: Crete, the United States Army Chaplain Corps Titus was one of Paul’s colleagues who...
Saints
Constantine promulgated the Edict of Milan in 313. This declared religious toleration in the Roman Empire. More specifically, Constantine’s edict opened the...
I really don’t appreciate when someone tells me I can’t do something. After being rejected from the University of Notre Dame my senior year of high school, I...
Towering intellect. Contemplative religious. Loyal friend. Such were a few of the many sides of Edith Stein. She’s also like an older sister to me. During her...
On December 2, 1990, soldiers murdered or wounded three dozen unarmed Tz’utujil Indians in Santiago Atitlán, a picturesque, mostly indigenous town of about...
Our Lady of Częstochowa is striking in many ways, but the scars on her right cheek make her truly unique. They are battle scars that the Black Madonna suffered...
Professor of religion Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada says that growing up in New York City she was always fascinated by street fairs. “There’s just a certain sort of...
On May 25, 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking the two blocks from his home in New York City to his school bus stop. He was never found. In...
Born in 1897, Catholic Worker cofounder Dorothy Day lived from the dawn of the U.S. empire in the Spanish-American War to the November 1980 election of Ronald...
“Good book. Did you know he was Catholic?” You never know what questions will mark you for life, but there was no doubting the impact of this one. I had just...
