The name Chloe is Greek and means a young, green, growing shoot. What a perfect name for a person who evidently made efforts to find nurturing for the young, green, growing church of Corinth.

Within his writings, St. Paul makes it clear that angels must never take precedence over Christ; an important reminder for all. However, if we use angels as mentors, or guides, they can be helpful spiritual chaperones, leading us closer and closer to the Lord.

These somewhat obscure saints from Scripture offer great spiritual gifts to Catholics.

With a bit of effort, each New Testament Mary can be distinguished an appreciated for her special role and contributions to Christendom.

Among the 13 epistles of the New Testament attributed to Paul (14, if you include Hebrews), five of them were written when Paul was imprisoned.

My oldest son proposed to his girlfriend this past spring and we are well on our way to a happy June wedding. Scanning over their wedding registry items, debating which items I might choose to buy for them, I began to think of something not on the list, but something that I decided to give to my future daughter-in-law anyway.

During [the] night Paul had a vision.  A Macedonian stood before him and implored him with these words, “Come over to Macedonia and help us” — Acts 16:9.
It was about two decades following the death of Christ, when Saint…

There are so many holy people in the Bible whose names we are familiar with:  of course our savior, Jesus, his mother Mary and foster father, Joseph.  We recognize the names of the apostles, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Gabriel the Archangel,…