The feast day of St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582 ... “That’s why you have so few friends.” Keywords: st. teresa of avila doctors of the church Jim Graves Jim Graves is a Catholic writer ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently voted nearly unanimously to request that Mother Teresa's feast day be added to the General Roman Calendar as an optional memorial.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of loving service to the poorest of the poor, to the General Roman ...

When I saw that today was the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, one of the four female Doctors of the Church, I was reminded of this encounter. I remembered that women may be unnumbered in the ranks ...

Displayed from May 11 to 25 at the Basilica of the Annunciation, the event followed a Vatican-authorized, yearlong study of ...

Oct. 15 is the day when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and doctor of the Church St. Teresa of Ávila, whose life of prayer serves as an example for many Catholics today.

it was good old-fashioned prayer that gave birth to this feast day. The nuns who educated me told tales of a drought that ravaged Sicily in the 1600s. Desperate, Sicilians beseeched St. Joseph for ...

St. Joseph actually has two feast days: March 19th ... thanks to saints like St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Teresa of Avila, ...

Memorials rank third in the classification of feast days on the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar. The memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta will be an optional memorial, which means it is ...