IT has been sometimes said that there has been in our times an entire decline in the spirit of Christian heroism. We assume the contrary, and design to show the sufferings of a modern martyr, a modern ...

She had a vision of her brother, who had died in childhood from some kind of facial cancer and who was now suffering in the ...

Find today’s readings here. “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is unworthy of me.” (Mt 10:38) Sometimes it feels like I’ve heard “take up your cross and follow me” too many times.

This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.