When we were in Arkansas, I bought a beautiful handcrafted “Comfort Cross”, made of red cedar. It has no sharp edges because it’s meant to be held; the vertical and horizontal parts of the cross are ...

As a graduate student, I was first drawn to Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) because of her intensity. Here was a woman who, in a moment of devotion and penitence, stripped herself naked before the ...

"In an instant, I saw five brilliant rays of light shine forth from his most holy wounds, and all came to my face." St. Veronica Giuliani wrote these words more than three centuries ago, describing ...