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 ...

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 ...

At the beginning of this month, I had the joy to travel to Detroit to preach solemn vespers at the historic National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica on the feast day of the Little Flower. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries "are not only those who travel long distances, learn new languages, do good works, and are good at proclamation". Missionary is "is anyone who lives as an ...

Pope Francis uses incense to venerate an image of St. Thérèse of Lisieux during a prayer vigil in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 1, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — St.

Individuals become Christian because they have been touched by Christ's love, not because they have been convinced or coerced by someone else, Pope Francis said. The Catholic Church needs missionary ...

Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux arrive today 25 June, at the Carmelite Convent in Benoni, Johannesburg, where they will be welcomed by the clergy of the ...