by Laura Ricketts
Every year on February 3rd, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Blaise. Blaise was a doctor and the Bishop of Sebastea. He became known as a healer and the first recorded actions of St. Blaise involved his assisting patients with objects stuck in their...
by Katie Prejean
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, and although that seems like a long way off, remember, February is a short month. Most people give something up for Lent like candy, soda, Netflix, coffee, warm showers. I had a friend in college who gave up any food that he had to cook,...
by Melissa Guerrero
Have you heard of St. Ansgar, the patron saint of Scandinavia? Unless you’re Danish or Scandinavian, odds are you haven’t. The “Apostle of the North” did so much to help the spread of Catholicism in Northern Europe. Want to know more? Here are 7 facts on the...
by Tom Perna
If there was ever a time when we needed to invoke a Princess Leia distress message, as she did when she reached out to Obi Won Kenobi in a Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, it would be now, in today’s world of journalism. Instead of a hologram message recorded through...
by Melissa Guerrero
Those of us who grew up between 1968 and 2001 had a good neighbor—and teacher—in the form of Mister Fred Rogers. As children, he taught us the importance of expressing ourselves and our feelings, learning how to deal with new and scary things we would experience, and...
by Theresa Zoe Williams
It is so glorious that we have the cloud of witnesses, the saints, to befriend on our journeys of faith. What’s even cooler is that new saints are being canonized all the time! The universal call to holiness is real and saints show us that we are all meant to be...
