The Secret Suffering of Blessed Mother Teresa

The book  Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light will be released on Sept. 19th, but is available for preorder now.
From Time Magazine:
On Dec. 11, 1979, Mother Teresa, the “Saint of the Gutters,” went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate [...]

Vatican Airlines?

From the BBC:
The Vatican is to launch a low-cost charter flight service to transport pilgrims to holy sites worldwide.
The inaugural flight on 27 August will go from Rome to Lourdes in France.
A small Italian airline, Mistral, will provide the planes, with the interiors decorated with sacred inscriptions such as: “I search for your face, [...]

“Mommy! Do you see? The statue of Mary is smiling.”

A grace-filled moment from Minnesota Mom:
We really do like Mary around here.
So when the opportunity came to see the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, we took it, even though it meant making our way into the city and dealing with the traffic, the parking, and the organizational feat of getting my four [...]

St. Rose of Lima

From the Office of Readings, words from St. Rose:
Our Lord and Saviour lifted up his voice and said with incomparable majesty: “Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of [...]

World’s Oldest Father

#21 at age 90, from the Daily Mail:
Indian farmer Nanu Ram Jogi, who is married to his fourth wife, boasts he does not want to stop, and plans to continue producing children until he is 100.
Mr Jogi admits he is not certain how many children his series of four wives have borne him – but [...]