San Francesco, CA. San Antonio, TX. St. Paul, MN. These major American cities all have one thing in common: they’re named after some of the greatest Catholic saints. It might seem strange that there are so many cities around the U.S. named after Catholic saints given American culture’...
Here are 8 things you might not know about St. Joseph, the foster father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1) He has no recorded words in Scripture He protected the immaculate Mother of God and helped raise the Lord of the Universe! But he doesn’t get even one quote....
Pope Francis released the second encyclical of his pontificate, Laudato Si, in May of 2015, two years after becoming Pope. The encyclical covers the importance of caring for the environment. I recommend you read the whole thing. But until you don’t have time for that, here are 26 key...
Jesus was thoroughly Jewish. Even so, different cultures and ethnicities have often portrayed Jesus and others from the Bible as being from their group. Sometimes this is done to symbolize the fact that Jesus came for all the nations of the world. Since Christianity for many centuries was based largely...
Last week, it was contraception’s 50th legal anniversary: on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in the Griswold v. Connecticut case that banning contraception was unconstitutional. Rolling Stone published an article celebrating the news, listing the five ways birth control has “changed America for the better.” Birth control...
The feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated every year 19 days after Pentecost (which is always a Friday). Here are 6 things you probably didn’t know about the devotion: 1) It dates back at least to the 12th century Though it’s impossible to say where...
