Prayer, the monks remind us, is something learned. This implies being a student or disciple -- a learner. We also must have teachers. Beginning with the great teacher of prayer, Jesus himself, the ...

Feb. 22, is the Feast of the Chair of Peter. It may seem strange to have a feast celebrating an article of furniture until we ...

The story of David and Saul in today's First Reading functions almost like a parable. Showing mercy to his deadly foe, David ...

Marian Pilgrimages has been organizing pilgrimages to Marian Shrines around the world for over 25 years. Our family-run business offers custom-made itineraries to Marian Shrines such as Medjugorje, Lo ...

The Franciscan Guest House offers affordable and modest accommodations located within walking distance to the peaceful Kennebunk beaches and picturesque Kennebunkport village. Being one of the most bu ...

As he watched a chapel ceiling be painted, Father Jeremy Paulin saw the glory of God. Father Paulin, an Oblate of the Virgin ...

When he was a parishioner at St. Rose of Lima in Chelsea, there was one thing Bernard Ba wanted to know from his pastor: The meaning of the phrase ...

Father Paul Soper, director of clergy personnel for the Archdiocese of Boston, was honored with the Avery Cardinal Dulles Ad ...

Ryan McLean likes to say that Malta Camp USA is "everything that the world is not." McLean, a native of Hingham, has cerebral palsy and cannot walk long distances. Climbing steep hills and staircases ...

Archbishop Edgerton R. Clarke, a 1960 alumnus of the seminary class of St. John Seminary, Brighton, died in his native Jamaica on Feb. 13, 2025. He had observed the 65th anniversary of his priestly or ...

A priest for the archdiocese who served almost his entire active priestly ministry on the faculty of St. John Seminary, Father Mark L. Noonan died at Regina Cleri Residence, Boston, on Feb. 9, 2025. T ...

Venerable Pierre Toussaint was born enslaved on June 27, 1766, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now modern-day Haiti. The sugarcane plantation on which Pierre and his family toiled was owned by ...