Catholic Social Teaching: The Dignity of Work

The Center of Concern and Orbis Books has recently published an extensively revised fourth edition of its award winning “Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret”. Catholic Social Teaching defines what it means to take up the joys and hopes, sorrows...

August 28, 1774 – Birth of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

“Elizabeth Ann Bayley, one of two daughters of a prominent Episcopal family, was born in New York on August 28, 1774. She was a charming little girl, small-boned and dainty, with great brown eyes and a face like a cameo, who from the very first loved God and...

August 26, 1826 – Death of St. Joan Antide

In 1793, when the French Revolution was at its height, all religious congregations were banned and Jeanne-Antide was forced to leave the Daughters of Charity. She returned to her home knowing that she would carry on what she had learned from St. Vincent de Paul. She...