Second only to Christmas in retail. It's Halloween. Having worked late tonight, I drove home in the dark, the wind blowing autumn leaves...

Is there such a place? News today is that the Holy Father has made no pronouncement of any new understanding of limbo, the place, or state, ...

What do you think when it comes to this feast? That it occurs in the "Month of the Holy Rosary" and that is why October is dedicat...

Painting, "Elizabeth II" A few days ago I commented on Mrs. Bogle's blog, with sincere questions, hoping to get a response in...

Holy Father St. Bruno... Speaking about the Charterhouse: "Many wish to come into this port, and many make great efforts to do so, yet ...

The feast of St. Bruno always makes me rather nostalgic. The Carthusians was the one order I finally found that I thought was meant for me -...

And Our Lady of Pompeii Thanks to Don Marco I remembered it is Bl. Bartolo's feast day! He established the shrine of Our Lady of the Ros...

Mrs. Bogle is on the left in this photo. I've only known of her because she and her husband James have a show on EWTN, which I find char...

[Follow up on an earlier post.] I've never liked Gaultier - his designs are tacky - but his response to the too thin controversy is fun....

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had this to say recently about St. Francis: “He was not merely an environmentalist or a pacifist. He was, abo...

This evening one may solemnly commemorate the death of St. Francis of Assisi. The vigil of his feast day may also be a day of prayer and fas...

What does your Angel look like? Wouldn't it be wonderful to see and converse with him? St. Gemma Galgani did. So did Frances of Rome. Di...

Shortly after 7PM little Therese died this very same evening in 1897. I was working tonight and forgot. She died much like Our Lord, suffoca...

September 28 Albino Luciani 1912-1978 The Servant of God, Pope John Paul I Holy Father, pray for us, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

The Holy Helpers. The two physician saints are depicted here in one of their most famous posthumous miracles. They replaced the diseased leg...

I read with joy that the Holy Father's cause is progressing well. He was like a shooting star, having reigned for only a month. He humbl...

Monk and mystic - friend of animals. My favorite saint from the Russian calendar. He founded, if my memory serves me, the famous Monastery o...

He invented the word 'nerd'. I never knew that. I didn't like Dr. Seuss as a kid because I early on developed a taste for fine...

Or, Our Lady of Mercy. Today's feast of Our Lady is primarily celebrated in South American countries and in Spain. It is the titular fea...

The priest with the stigmata. I painted this icon of Padre Pio several years ago, before he had been beatified. It now resides in the exquis...