JINOTEGA, Nicaragua – Many people know her simply as “the tortilla lady.” Elena Pineda, a single mother of three grown sons and a 14-year-old daughter named Olga, makes a living selling corn tortillas she presses by hand in the mountain community of Jinotega.Read More

Ss. Processus and Martinian worked as guards at a prison in Rome. They guarded Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles, while they were in prison in Rome. Ss. Peter and Paul converted and baptized Ss. Processus and Martinian. The newly converted Christians were martyred in Rome. Ss. Processus and Martinian are mentioned in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum,...Read More

For someone whose avocation involves the specific measurement of distance and time, road runner Neil Hinkle was rather casual in gauging his involvement at Holy Trinity in Glen Burnie.Read More

St. Martha was a friend of Jesus and a hostess to him while he was in her house. St. Martha complained that her sister, St. Mary, was sitting at Jesus’ feet listening to him speak while she did all of the work in the house. Jesus told Martha that Mary had chosen better than she...Read More

BRESSANONE, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI offered his best wishes to China, the International Olympic Committee and all the athletes who will participate in the Aug. 8-24 games in Beijing.Read More

St. Bernard of Clairvaux was born in 1090 in Burgundy, France. He joined the abbey of Citeaux when he was 22 with four brothers and about 25 friends. He founded the monastery at Clairvaux. Under his direction, the monastery soon had more than 700 monks and more than 150 daughter houses. The saint worked to...Read More

Sister Mary Louise Lynch’s 60 years as a Medical Mission Sister will be celebrated Aug. 15 with a Mass and reception at the sisters’ North American headquarters in Philadelphia. A Baltimore native, Sister Mary Louise entered the Medical Mission Sisters in 1944 after high school. She received a journalism degree from Marquette University and a...Read More

St. Wenceslaus was born in Prague (in what was then Bohemia and is now the Czech Republic) in 907. The duke of Bohemia came to power after his father was killed in a time of backlash against Christianity. St. Wenceslaus fought the backlash through prayer. His brother, Boleslaus, killed him for political reasons Sept. 28,...Read More