John of God
A saint for booksellers and health care workers alike
St. John of God is one of Spain’s leading religious figures. He was born in Montemoro Novo, Portugal, on March 8, 1495, into a deeply religious family that was poor but had once been wealthy and prominent. Continue »
Finding Friends in an Unlikely Place
Life Lessons from Saints Perpetua and Felicity
“Holy martyrs, Perpetua and Felicity, pray for us.” Many times in my life, I have heard Perpetua and Felicity mentioned in litanies of saints and prayers of the Church. Continue »
From Fisherman to Friend of God
The Dramatic Life Journey of St. Peter
For the first part of his life, he was a small fish in a big pond. A member of a disadvantaged minority, he lived in the obscurity of a backwater province in the mighty Roman empire. Continue »
Pressing On to Win the Prize
St. Paul’s life speaks to us.
The man whom Bible readers know by both the Semitic name “Saul” and the Greco-Roman name “Paul” was born into a setting that dovetailed two dramatically different cultures: the Judaism of Jerusalem and the Greco-Roman world of Damascus. Continue »
A Moment of Ecumenical Grace
The Story of “the Four Immortal Chaplains”
Early on the morning of February 3, 1943, survivors from the torpedoed U.S. troopship Dorchester shivered in lifeboats as they watched their ship slide slowly into the nerve-deadening cold of the North Atlantic. Continue »
The Simple Faith of St. André Bessette
It still opens the door to God.
“I am only a man, just like you,” time after time Brother André Bessette reminded petitioners who came to him. Continue »