The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been without a Catholic high school since Holy Name High School in Escanaba closed in 1971. Fifty years later, however, the school has plans to reopen, starting with a freshman class of at least 10 students.
Priests across the country have volunteered to serve on special ministerial teams offering the anointing of the sick to COVID-19 patients. In a special report from Our Sunday Visitor, several priests share stories from the front lines as they are accompanying the
It was by far the biggest decision Father John Kartje had to make in his five-year tenure as rector and president of University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. It was mid-March, and the Chicago priest was about to shut down
Rev. Sharon Risher will never forget June 17, 2015. It was a Wednesday, and she was making her rounds as a trauma chaplain at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. “I was tending to a family that had just lost their grandfather, and
Cause of canonization opened for Irving C. ‘Francis’ Houle, layman who bore wounds of Christ
It’s often been said that necessity is the mother of invention. That certainly is the case for a new Catholic audio app called Hallow, which has the goal of helping people grow in their faith through guided prayer and meditation sessions. Hallow
At age 30, New York native Michael Almonte was a Catholic searching for more. He grew up in a very devout family where the Rosary was prayed every day, and he had been going to daily Mass for years. “I knew my
In the late 1990s, John Tirado could see the writing on the wall. Catholic schools and churches in the United States were either closing or being consolidated, and the priesthood wasn’t growing. “We had a large population of priests growing old and
Fewer than 10 months after being appointed chair of a new Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop George V. Murry, SJ, of Youngstown, Ohio, has stepped down to undergo intense chemotherapy following a diagnosis