The upcoming canonization of Blessed Junípero Serra in Washington, D.C.—the first ever to take place on American soil—has generated, as I’m sure you know, a good deal of controversy. For his defenders, Padre Serra was an intrepid evangelist and a model of Gospel living, while for...
You know the Sistine Chapel and the Notre Dame in Paris, but do you know the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood? Because it’s one of the most beautiful churches in the whole world. Located in St. Petersburg, Russia, Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is a...
I first met Jesus at the age of fifteen. As a teenager, I “accepted Christ” and began to live as best a Christian life as I could muster. And it was great. I was happy as an Evangelical Protestant. I hadn’t rejected Catholicism, I didn’t know much about...
If you don’t count the fictional Mary Poppins’ “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” everyone knows what the longest word in the English language is: antidisestablishmentarianism! Actually, as you might expect with these sorts of things, there’s some dispute over whether it really is the longest English word. Suffice it to say, it...
The face of the first saint of the New World may be better known than ever, thanks to a team of scientists that has analyzed the skull of Saint Rose of Lima. Scientists from the University of Saint Martin de Porres in Peru and the Brazilian Anthropological and Dental Legal...
When I decided to get serious about becoming a Catholic I phoned up the Catholic church closest to my house. I made the cardinal mistake of thinking they were all the same. After all, at that point in my faith journey I’d already been intellectually converted to the truth...
