It is easy to overlook Joseph, much as we overlook those millions of men and women who do their work quietly and well, without the least fanfare.

Mother Katharine Drexel founded schools nationwide, including Xavier University, and a religious order to serve people of color.

Susanne M. Batsdorff, niece of Edith Stein, reflects on Catholic-Jewish dialogue on the occasion of Stein's canonization in 1998.

Saints are known for their holiness. That doesn’t mean they were easy to get along with.

Let us not chide Cardinal Newman for writing in the middle of the 19th century instead of the middle of the 20th. But also let us not assume that what he had to say then had absolute and unconditioned validity for all such institutions in all times.

St. Dominic de Guzman and his Order of Preachers have left a lasting impact on the church through their saints and defense of the faith.