Every year on Aug. 20, the Catholic Church honors St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th-century monk who helped to build up the Cistercian order — some of whom are known today as the Trappists. Bernard ...

St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a monk and abbot, a Doctor of the Church, advisor to popes, preacher of the Second Crusade and was known for his devotion to the Blessed Mother. His feast day ...

Feb. 6—"A boy's will is the wind's will," the poet reminds us, but rare is the boy for who the wind blows him at a very young age into a career he will profess for life. Joseph Jude Clark was that ...

CULLMAN, Ala. — Catholicism is sensual. It’s a religion that engages the senses to bring mankind closer to the Divine. Taste is, of course, one of the senses — one of the ways people have been ...