Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast day is celebrated on December 12, is confirmed by the Church as the “Patroness of the Americas”. She first appeared on the hill of Tepeyac, Mexico in 1531 to St. Juan Diego, an indigenous peasant and convert to the Catho...
This past summer, my new wife and I went on a short trip to Mexico from our home in Florida. The trip was originally planned for last October, but we missed our flight due to poor timing (my wife says it’s my fault, and she is right). But it turns out tha...
Centro Tepeyac is a crisis pregnancy center in Silver Spring, Maryland, supported by several members of the Maryland CL community. Miriam Bethencourt, the Executive Director, shares what it means to entrust the work of the center to Our Lady of Guadalupe....
I first met Fr. Jean Latour and Fr. Joseph Vaillant, the protagonists of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, in 2014 after picking up a copy at a used bookstore in Memphis, TN. I had just arrived in the city as a newlywed after having met Commu...
"God is glorified in his saints, his heroes and his martyrs. He is also glorified in his poor." Those words are taken from George Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmelites, a dramatization of the novel, The Song at the Scaffold, by Gertrud von le Fort. The ac...
