The figure of Omobono of Cremona occupies a peculiar place in Catholic history and Christian moral imagination. He is neither a monk nor a prince, neither a martyr nor a theologian, but a working merchant in a city whose life was already shaped…
The figure of Omobono of Cremona occupies a peculiar place in Catholic history and Christian moral imagination. He is neither a monk nor a prince, neither a martyr nor a theologian, but a working merchant in a city whose life was already shaped…
The SSPX regards the Second Vatican Council as a break with previous doctrine. But Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller says that the Society’s notion of a “break does not exist; there is no justification for the planned episcopal ordinations.” The…
HEAVEN — After several incidents over the course of his first day in paradise, Chuck Norris was pulled aside by Saint Peter and gently asked to please stop roundhouse kicking the cherubim.With vanquished cherubim strewn about the streets of…
We know his first name, but not his last. We think we know when he died, but it’s unclear when he was born. Over the centuries, plenty of legend has taken root about Patrick as firm fact, but there’s enough known about his life to celebrate…
You may have heard the legend that Saint Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, but I’m here to tell you it ain’t, exactly, 100-percent true. Now it’s true that Ireland has no snakes today and it’s also true that Saint Patrick is the one that…
What sort of man was St Bernard? Where did he come from? He towers over the twelfth-century Cistercian movement: such were his charisma and industriousness. On the face of it, the Cistercian project was conservative. Yet its protagonists…
Joseph Pronechen, Catholic News Agency Friday, November 14, 2025 In April 1912, Mother Frances Cabrini was in Italy with her sisters. Her plans were to visit her foundations in France, Spain, and England before sailing back to the United States…
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