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St. Eanswida, or St. Eanswythe, was the daughter of a king of Kent, and the granddaughter of St. Ethelbert. She refused to be married to a Northumbrian prince and pagan, and instead founded a convent at Folkestone, in Kent, England, around the year 630. She stayed there until she died, and when the church and convent, which had been destroyed by the Danish, was restored in 18...

"Faith does not allow us to stop at remembrance," Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks of New York said in his homily at his first Sept. 11 memorial Mass since becoming New York's archbish...

St. Jean Gabriel Perboyre was born in France in 1802. He was one of eight children, and two of his brothers also became priests, while two sisters became nuns. When he was 16, Jean Gabriel went to seminary with his younger brother Louis, and felt called to enter the Congregation of the Mission.

Jean Gabriel was ordained at 23, and eventually became rector and then mast...

As the old joke goes, two pastors were having lunch, and one says to the other that he has bats in his church roof and wonders how he is going to get rid of them. His fellow pastor delivers the punchline: just baptize them, give them their first confession and Communion, and confirm them — then you’ll never see them again.

The issue of young people, from their teens th...

Mercy and forgiveness should be at the heart of the Christian life.

Yet, as today’s First Reading wisely reminds us, often we cherish our wrath, nourish our anger, refuse mercy to those who have done us wrong. Jesus, too, strikes close to home in today’s Gospel with his realis...