“I have a fun story about Mother Teresa!” began the grinning Fr. David Mary, Minister General of the Franciscan Friars Minor, standing near St. Peter’s Square in Rome the day before the canonization of Mother Teresa. “Many years ago when I was visiting with her in the sacristy and...
Pope St. John Paul II grew up with humble means in his home town of Wadowice, Poland from 1920 until he moved to Krakow in 1938 to study at the famous Jagiellonian University. During a visit to his home town as Pope in 1999, he made mention that he was...
Of the 12 Apostles appointed by Jesus, 10 of them died as martyrs. Judas, the traitor, took his own life. But the last Apostle to die, John, met a very different fate. Living nearly to the very end of the 1st century, he died of natural causes – and it was...
Even her friend of more than 30 years, Father Sebastian Vazhakala, did not know Mother Teresa had conversations with and visions of Jesus before forming the Missionaries of Charity. It wasn’t until after her death, for the vast majority of people, that this part of Mother Teresa’s spiritual...
Perhaps you’ve come across this image before and thought, “What in the world?” Known as the “Lactation of St. Bernard,” it usually shows Our Lady holding the infant Jesus with one hand, exposing one her breasts with her other hand, and squirting breast milk at St. Bernard of Clairvaux...
She loves Our Lord! Claressa Shields had just won the Olympic gold medal in woman’s boxing – her second time in a row (she also won in London in 2012). And it looks like even she couldn’t believe it! “…and, I did it,” she concluded after explaining her strategy...
