In 2006, a miraculous healing was attributed to a lay wife and mother from Mexico, Blessed Maria Concepcion Cabrera de Armida or, as most call her, Blessed Conchita. A foundress of lay and religious communities, Blessed Conchita was also a mystic whose desire for a...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s life was a miracle, so to speak, in itself. At the age of eighteen, Mother Teresa left her home in Skopje, North Macedonia to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland, never to see her family again. After a time, Mother Teresa was...
In your lifetime, you may have come across a few people who claim the need to lose themselves in order to find themselves. The escapist methods they employ might range from healthy meditation all the way to substance abuse. Although these people undertake dissimilar...
Biographers of Walker Percy often begin their work with the distressing tale of how Percy’s grandfather, father and mother committed suicide. With suicide as a major factor in his childhood, Walker sought a way to define himself as a Percy without falling to the...
As Christians, what exactly should we be thankful for on Thanksgiving? St. Ignatius of Loyola often emphasizes that giving thanks is the precedent to love. If we seek to love God, then we first have to give thanks to God for all the gifts in our life. In the video...
