I'll say her name was Barbie, because it wasn't. During my elementary school years, she was the class outcast, the girl with cooties, the student whose jacket, books, desk and coat hook also had ...

Elena Zuniga didn’t go searching for the patron saint of anxiety, depression and mental illness, but St. Dymphna found her anyway. First, a small St. Dymphna charm showed up in her jewelry box ...

Michigan's roads need all the prayers they can get. The Archdiocese of Detroit on Friday used Twitter to ask the public: Who should be designated the patron saint of potholes? Of the choices ...

Today, February 8, has been designated as the International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking. It is also the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, who is the patron of trafficking victims.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, the "flying friar," is not the patron saint of Mac users -- he's appealed to by skittish air travelers (it's said the good friar levitated whenever he was happy).

Long before the illustrator Haddon Sundblom painted the figure of the jolly old red-suited elf Santa Claus for Coca-Cola in 1931, St. Nicholas was lodged in hearts and minds in many lands. Sunblom&… ...

St. Patrick’s Breastplate, St. Patrick's prayer of Ireland's patron saint has come down through the centuries and remains popular today and given the current reality of the Coronavirus pandemic ...