When the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila needed spiritual counsel during the Spanish Inquisition, she did not turn to St. John of the Cross or St. Peter of Alcántara, but to the lesser-known St ...

Each May, the Church honors the Blessed Mother. The words of our most recent popes about Our Lady also relate to their focus ...

Greg Heille, O.P., joins “Preach” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to reflect on the homiletic legacy of Pope Francis: always on message, spoken from the heart, simple without losing depth.

steeped in the spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. Perhaps that—and more. She is also the widow of press freedom icon, publisher, and political detainee Jose Burgos Jr.

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was born January 2, 1873 in Alençon, France to pious parents, both of whom were declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.

Harbour read Teresa of Ávila ... it over and over. He read John of the Cross, who gave us the phrase “dark night of the soul”. And then there was St Augustine, who was kind of a sex addict ...

I’d mined the writings of St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI for teachings that ... raised one hand in greeting, his pectoral cross crooked on his chest, I suspected the name was well chosen.

The remarkably preserved body of an early modern saint, St. Teresa of Avila, has been exhibited in Spain months after being ...

St Teresa's body was exhumed by Marco Chiesa, the General Postulator of the Order, at the Diocese of Avila in Spain on August 28. Church officials shared the news on social media at the time ...