Though her conversion was a bitter blow to her mother, Stein felt that in accepting Christ she had been reunited—by a mysterious path—with her Jewish roots.
Aside from his role in founding the Jesuits, Ignatius made a huge contribution through the publication of his Spiritual Exercises, a manual devised for the spiritual formation of his followers.
Stanley Rother, a priest from Oklahoma, volunteered in 1968 to serve in his diocese’s mission to Santiago Atitlán, a picturesque Indian town in Guatemala.
Mary Magdalene was one of the original Galilean disciples of Jesus and one of the many women who followed him in his itinerant ministry.
Few saints have left such a palpable impact on the world as St. Benedict, founder of the great Italian monastery at Monte Cassino and author of a Rule that set a standard for the Western monastic tradition.
She called herself Peace Pilgrim. Otherwise, she had no interest in describing the particulars of her early life, her age, or even her given name
His most significant work was an enormous trilogy of many volumes, tracing God’s relation to creation in the converging lines of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
At the age of twelve, St. Elizabeth entered a double monastery (housing both men and women) in Schonau, Germany.
Martin Buber, a Jewish philosopher and theologian, was one of the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century.
Sigrid Undset, who grew up in Norway, achieved early success with the publication of her first novels.
