When I first moved away from home, to attend a Catholic high school as a boarding student, my cousin, who had briefly explored religious life as a sister, gave me a vinyl-covered, small blue book of ...
With this final installment of the series of the ways St. Thérèse answered prayers for her intercession and made that known by showering a rose or roses in different, and often unexpected and unusual ...
We tend to shellac our saints, which is probably inevitable once we put them on a pedestal. It is not that they do not deserve the height; it is that, from down here, they are harder to see in their ...
Oh little flower, in this hour show your power." Say this 16 times and St Therese will locate a lost object for you, advised the young man standing outside the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin yesterday. He ...
MANILA, Philippines - Every year, Catholics prepare for the Lenten season, a time for penitence, sacrifice and renewal. Along with the traditional Lenten activities like Visita Iglesia, Seven Last ...
St. Thérèse, then aged 15, very eager to become a nun, had fixed her hair in a bun so she would look older. It was during an audience with the bishop of the Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux to ask his ...