

The Catholic Defender: St. Paul Miki and Companions
Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, immediately killing over 37,000...


The Catholic Defender: Saint Joseph of Leonissa
Born on 8 January 1556 as Eufranio Desiderio at Leonessa, a small town then in Umbria, Italy and died on Saturday 4 February1612 at...


The Catholic Defender: The Saint Agatha Story
As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that...


The Catholic Defender: Saint Blaise "saint of the wild beast."
Faith is a sheer gift of God, which we receive when we fervently ask for it. Faith is the supernatural power that is absolutely...