Playing Arpeggios With St. Frances Xavier Cabrini — By: Church Militant

As a man born and bred in Chicago, I was baptized at St. Peter Canisius parish on Chicago’s northwest side and lived among many Italian Americans. In our neighborhood, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was known as our saint. Even after her canonization in 1947, most citizens of the Windy City continued to call her simply Mother Cabrini, as she was considered a…

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Learning from St. Thomas Aquinas, 750 years after his Death — By: Catholic News Agency

Robin Franssen, 18, of Belgium, is a first-year philosophy student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. / Credit: Bénédicte Cedergren/EWTN Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Hundreds of students travel annually to Rome to study the prodigious philosophical and theological works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Angelic Doctor,” whose feast…

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