"I won't, I won't!" cried the woman, writhing in the agony of nightmare. 

The scene is the Basilica of Saint Mark, in Milan, in 1874. 

Many a lover of man's best friend has hoped to find a shaggy welcome in heaven, as if the old fellow would wag his tail to say, "It's you! I'm glad you made it. I wasn't sure."

I'm writing this month about Lourdes, and my fingers should tremble.

The artist Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) experienced both the encounters and the conflicts between East-Asia and the West in the 20th century during his seventy-three-year-long journey to the Catholic Church.

The green hills and rocky seacoast of County Mayo, in western Ireland, have been a seedbed of the Catholic faith for centuries. 

Rare is the obituary that can match that of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) who died as the most decorated soldier in the British Army.

I was about eight years old when I first watched a movie about paratroopers jumping into France for the D-Day invasion of June 1944.

How St. Philip Neri transformed the city of Rome.

Like so many others around the world, I was overjoyed to hear of the recent decision of the Vatican to canonize Mother Teresa, a woman generally recognized, during her lifetime, to be a "living saint."