Father Philip Bochanski, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has served as the executive director of Courage International, Inc., since 2017. Founded by the late Father John Harvey in 1980, Courage seeks to help men and women who are attracted to
When he was installed as the bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in January, Bishop Michael Fisher was entering a diocese that had seen more than its share of turmoil. It had filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and its previous bishop resigned amid
A Kickstarter campaign has raised nearly $40,000 dollars to help fund the production of a new interactive children’s book on the lives of saints. Author Corey Heimann and illustrator Tricia Dugat have teamed up to publish “Light of the Saints,” which will
A group of Catholic evolutionary biologists, astrochemists, astrophysicists, theologians and astronomers will gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend to discuss a topical scientific issue in high-level government circles: Extraterrestrials, advanced alien civilizations and UFOs. The conference is “quite timely” said Stephen M.
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Catholic schools has been well-documented, with the National Catholic Educational Association reporting earlier this year that enrollment across the board in the 2020-2021 academic year is down 6.4%. COVID’s financial pressures are also expected to push hundreds
As Mass dispensations are lifted, parishes are left to accommodate the masked and the maskless
With declining COVID-19 infection rates and hospitalizations, combined with the growing percentage of Americans who have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, more Church leaders believe the time is right to rescind the dispensations from attending Mass on Sundays. Some bishops announced
As we near the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd and the protests sparked by his killing, former EWTN Radio host Gloria Purvis talks with Our Sunday Visitor about the state of race in the country and in the Church.
Michael J. Iafrate, a West Virginia-born theologian, musician and activist who wrote of a “magisterium of the poor” and spoke out against corruption in the hierarchy, died May 12 from complications related to treatment he underwent after a bone marrow transplant a
Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Ministries and auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, participated in this third “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit, and the platform’s “redditors” asked him thousands of questions on everything from his thoughts on Chicago pizza
The novel coronavirus, which has shut down or crippled entire sectors of the economy over the past year, has impacted the production and sales of products that religious orders across the country depend on to support themselves. The pandemic has caused some