This week Robert Ellsberg discusses his book, Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, with Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J. The book includes reflections on the stories of canonized saints, and well as lay, non-Christian and non-religious individuals. The purpose of sharing these stories is to provide readers with daily spiritual guidance. […]
Saints
Posted inFaith, Of Other Things
Believe it or not, St. Francis wasn’t always a saint.
Being a saint isn’t being without sin.
Posted inFaith, Video
RECAP | Mother Teresa Canonization
Got 60 seconds? Here’s everything you missed at Mother Teresa’s canonization Mass.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
When Mother Teresa became a saint
“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
If the mainstream media covered Jesus the way it covered Mother Teresa
If Jesus was concerned about the sick, why would he not build a proper hospital or shelter?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Mother Teresa is canonized by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has declared Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint of the church and a model of Christian life.
Posted inFaith
Clinton Recounts Working with Mother Teresa
While speaking at the annual Salute to Labor Picnic in Illinois, Hillary Clinton recounted her experience with Mother Teresa.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis raises memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a feast day
The elevation is a call to “reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the new evangelization and the greatness of the mystery of divine mercy.”
Posted inFaith, News
Indians shed tears, share stories as Kolkata honors Mother Teresa
“I owe my life to her. Her touch was magical, and I live till today only because of that saintly magic.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
John Paul II and his path to sainthood
Little did Karol Wojtyla know on that moonlit night what lay ahead of him: the encyclicals, the meetings with statesmen and governmental leaders, the political and religious controversies.