Last week I finally met my heavenly best friend, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower. It was the most beautiful moment, one I had waited years to see unfold. I had been to Lisieux once, briefly, ...

This year, the Catholic Church celebrates the centenary of the canonization of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of her birth in 2023, Pope Francis wrote an apostolic ...

Pope Francis has commended the “little greatness” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in a new message focusing on the 19th-century Carmelite’s relevance for the Church today. St. Thérèse’s “genius consists in ...

One of Pope Francis’ last gestures before undergoing abdominal surgery on Wednesday was to pray before a relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. A relic of the French Carmelite nun, also known as St. Thérèse ...

A relic of the young French Carmelite nun — known in the Catholic Church as “The Little Flower” — is coming to Redlands. The faithful can see the relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux at the El Carmelo ...

I was an Anglican priest the summer I met St. Therese of Lisieux. I was living in England and had three months free between jobs, so I decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. I was going to ...

The relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux are coming to Royal Oak, Michigan, as part of a national tour. Born in Alençon, France, in 1873, Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Monastery at Lisieux to ...

The relics arrived on 13 June, the day war broke out between Iran and Israel, and are travelling through a country that is recovering from the war between Hezbollah and the Jewish state. A stop in the ...

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In my early adulthood I studied the 16th-century Carmelite mystics Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross at a Roman Catholic seminary. On my own I plowed through spiritual formation tomes written by ...