The three shepherds: Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco went through many trials in 1917 once Our Lady of Fatima graced them with heavenly visits and secrets. What would the children do once they were kidnapped and faced death threats? Listen and find out! This audio includes a bonus track of the Trem...

Dominic was an energetic, motivated youth from a happy home who yearned to know more about God and give everything to him. As a young teen, Dominic came to the experimental school for boys run by St. John Bosco in Italy. Dominic challenged others to grow in wisdom and holiness while at the school...

There are two stories presented here. The first is about the ancient Greek princess Philomena who died a virgin martyr, and the second is that of Pauline Jericot who hoped to spread the devotion to Philomena. By telling both stories, which occurred hundreds of years apart, we can see the power of...

This is the story of the great reformer of the Carmelite order: St. Teresa of Avila. This audiodrama follows the life a privileged Spanish youth through her childhood and attendance at the local convent school to her founding of several discalced (shoeless) monasteries. Be inspired by this saint'...

Young Kateri suffered misunderstanding and ridicule due to her counter-cultural choices as a Mohawk to remain an unwed virgin for the love of Jesus Christ. Experience our first Native American Saint's struggles to follow Our Lord within her tribe and through the teachings of some early Jesuit Mis...

From the moment her guardian angel took her hand and led her to the miraculously little convent chapel, young Sister Catherine Labouré's life would be changed forever. Our Lady gave St. Catherine a special duty to spread the wearing of and devotion to the miraculous medal. Of course, the medal is...

Joseph Callewaert's engaging work on St. Paul reads like a novel. With inviting, even dramatic, prose, it recounts the story of the great Apostle to the Nations. This is no dry tome or ponderous biography. Nor is its subject a "safe" historical figure, irrelevant to the issues of today: St. Paul ...

Born into an important Portuguese Family, his father being a politician, young Anthony wanted to sacrifice his life to be a martyr for Christ in Morocco. Nevertheless, God had other plans for Anthony when he met some humble traveling Franciscans, and he left his studies to follow Francis and spre...

Follow the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her interactions with recently canonized St. Juan Diego. Juan was a simple peasant widower, completing his daily routines, when Our Lady, heavy with child, appeared over Tepeyac Hill in Mexico, and announced other plans for him. Listen to the story of...

Born in Codogno Italy, with a great love for our Lord, this sickly, small girl would likely never be accepted into a convent, nor travel far from home. Both assumptions were incorrect, as St. Frances made 23 transatlantic crossings by boat after she began her missionary work at the age of 42 year...

Do you wonder from where the wonderful Catholic practice of wearing the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel comes? Listen to the story of St. Simon Stock, the recipient of the promises Our Lady made to those who wear her scapular with devotion. Be inspired by his abandonment of the comfortab...

Known for her virtue of purity, follow the story of a lovely young Italian woman who understood her own dignity and value, as well as the horror of sin. Due to finances, two families shared one country home. The teenage boy of one family, Alessandro, grew up with pornography, and little parental ...

Bernadette may have been a poor, uneducated, sickly French girl, but her visions of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes, and her subsequent courage to follow out the requests of Our Lady, demonstrate to all of us, young or old, rich or poor, that our Lady "doesn't promise us happiness in this world, bu...

The Catholic Church is on the verge of a transition of great consequence.

As Catholic theologian, historian, and papal biographer George Weigel notes, the next pope will probably have been a teenager or a very young man during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); he may even have been a child...