October Saints

The Church honors many inspiring men and women throughout the liturgical year. October is a particularly spectacular month, as the Church shows off an amazing collection of feast days and memorials in the weeks leading up to All Saints Day. So, while you enjoy crisp sweater weather and sip your […]

Seven Lessons From the Life of Pope Francis

You know the scenes that make me sob the most in books and movies? It’s not when characters are treated unfairly. It’s not when all seems hopeless. It’s not even necessarily when the protagonist loses someone they love (although the opening sequence from “Up” wrecks me every time). In actuality, […]

40 Things to Give or Give Up This Lent

“What was the life of Christ but a perpetual humiliation?” Ouch. If someone were to tell you your entire life was humiliating from start to finish, how would you take it? Would you laugh it off? Take offense? What if that someone was a saint, and his nickname was “the […]