Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Father Bill’s last mass at St. Therese mirrored the man. Casual and unassuming, still pious and profound, the mass and the priest celebrated the joy of genuine faith and sweetly tended friendship. “How do you treat a new pair of shoes?” he asked in his homily. “You break them in patiently. You treat them with [...]
It's not that easy to be a Catholic saint. The martyrdom requirement alone tends to turn most people off. So, when we Catholics get ourselves a modern-day saint, we tend to go all out. Such is the case with Father Elias Nieves, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997. Father Nieves grew up poor [...]