Born in Philadelphia, Agnes Repplier started writing essays for publication as a teenager. By the mid-1880’s, she was writing for the Atlantic Monthly. Although few of her essays deal with religion directly, her faith influenced her writing. The importance of spiritual commitment was an important in her work. She was awarded the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal in 1911. Read more

The New Testament is so called because it brings in the new. St. Isidore, Sentences Read more

Saint Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo or Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo (May 3, 1786 – April 30, 1842) was the founder of the Little House of Divine Providence and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Bra, then in the Kingdom of Sardinia, and became a canon in Turin. Don Cottolengo founded the “Little House of the Divine Providence” in Valdocco, wherein he housed all kinds of poor people. He also founded monasteries, convents, communities of priests,... Read more

Monsignor Charles Owen Rice was a Roman Catholic priest and an American labor activist.He was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA to Irish immigrants. His mother died when he was four, and he and his brother were sent to Ireland to be raised by a grandmother. Seven years later he returned to the United States. In 1934, after studies at Duquesne University and Saint Vincent Seminary, he was ordained into the priesthood in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he... Read more

The Commonweal is the oldest independent lay Catholic journal of opinion in the United States. Founded in 1924 by Michael Williams, it reflected a growing sense of self-confidence among American Catholics as they emerged from a largely immigrant status to become highly successful members of the American mainstream. Modeled on the New Republic and the Nation, the magazine’s goal was to be a weekly review “expressive of the Catholic note” in covering literature, the arts, religion, society, and politics. Never... Read more

Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893. Francis Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907. He... Read more

Nurse at the Holy Spirit Hospital, near the Vatican, in Rome in 1886. Joined the Sisters of Charity, dedicated to service to the sick, in 1887, taking the name Agostina. Worked with the critically ill and contagious, catching typhus and malaria in the process. After she caught tuberculosis, she worked in the TB ward where a patient stabbed her to death during a rape attempt; she died praying that he be forgiven. She was canonized in 1999. (From saints.sqpn.com) Read more

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. Dorothy Day Read more

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The Canon Law Society of America was founded on November 12, 1939 by a group of canonists in Washington, DC. The Society was established as a professional association dedicated to the study and application of canon law in the Catholic Church. Today the Society’s membership includes over thirteen hundred men and women from thirty-five countries. In serving the leadership of the Church and the People of God, the Society and its members fulfill that responsibility by continuous research and study... Read more