Sister Eliswa Vakayil was a wife and mother who founded a Carmelite order after she was widowed.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to advance on the local level the cause for beatification of Fr. Richard Thomas, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to serving the poor on the border.

These Catholic podcasts — by women, for women — will help center and support you spiritually as you go through your busy day.

In Spain, animals have long been woven into sacred life — whether the doves that circle shrine towers or the geese of Barcelona keeping watch over a martyr’s cloister.