TRUE OR FALSE? 1. Patrick was Irish. 2. He lived for a time in France. 3. He was well-educated. 4. He used a shamrock to explain the Trinity. 5. He […]
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Joy in a time of penance
St. Patrick’s Day falls early in Lent this year. It sticks out like a sore, green thumb in the middle of a sober liturgical period. As a lifelong Catholic — […]
Cool finds for Candlemas
Here in central Ohio, the temperature has finally gone so far down that the the kids are no longer arguing with me about wearing coats and hats outside. On February […]
St. Frances de Sales
When Saint Francis de Sales was born in 1567 in Thorens-Glières, France, his father had his life planned out for him. This life would be one of nobility, with a […]
The childhood of St. Marianne Cope
The family of Barbara Koob — St. Marianne’s birth name — emigrated from Germany for America the year after her birth in 1838, and the immigrant family’s name became Cope. […]
