Kitahara Satoko* kept a box of newspapers and magazines that reported on her charitable work with the children from a homeless village called Ants Town. The articles’ headlines dubbed the 22-year-old Catholic convert “Mary of Ants Town”—much to Satoko’s embarrassment and delight, as she later confessed. Born August 22, …

“Here are the injections for Converso. The pawn ticket is Sappa’s. I had forgotten it; renew it on my behalf” (Letters to His Friends and Family, Pier Giorgio Frassati, 238). This was the last letter St. Pier Giorgio Frassati wrote, composed while he was dying of polio at age 24, …

On most Sundays at St. Maximillian Kolbe Parish, my family sits facing a stained glass window of Fr. Kolbe. The window contains a constellation of symbols representing the events of his life; from well-known facts (his Auschwitz uniform) to those lesser known (his time in Nagasaki). At the top of …