During our time in Tuscany, my girlfriend and I drove an hour from where we were staying to Lucca and spent the day touring the historic city center. We entered through a gate in the well-preserved ...

In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

As bullets flew during the fateful shootout in which the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Mencho would be fatally wounded, did he seek help in his final moments by murmuring desperate prayers to St.