The March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest annual pro-life event in the nation, was to be held Friday, Jan. 18, this year. The event was to begin with a noontime rally on the National Mall, followed by a walk
The call to the missionary life is a large cornerstone in the history of the Catholic Church. However, without the means to support such service or the guidance to pursue independent trips, some people are unable to follow the call. One organization
After learning that Blythe Kaufman, founder of Children’s Rosary, was filming at the nearby EWTN headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, Nathan Wright, principal of the Diocese of Birmingham’s St. Francis Xavier School, invited her to the campus to organize a school Rosary with
A series of wildfires is again plaguing California, causing much destruction and loss of life, with the worst to date being one that has struck the small Northern California community of Paradise, wiping out much of the town. Structures belonging to Catholic
It’s been a month since Hurricane Michael blew its way through the Florida Panhandle. The Category 4 storm — which produced heavy rains and winds of up to 155 mph — destroyed buildings, downed trees and power lines, and caused up to
Quality church art can make the supernatural more real to worshippers, guiding prayer and making houses of worship more appealing to visitors. Gregory Cave of Cave Co. realizes this as well as anyone, as he has devoted 42 years of his professional
The Benedictine monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in eastern Oklahoma will soon mark the 20th anniversary of their founding. The community lives on a remote, 1,000-acre wooded site in the Diocese of Tulsa and has prayer as its chief apostolate. As its
Eight Catholic teens ages 15-18 discerning vocations to the priesthood and religious life took a 70-mile pilgrimage through the Diocese of Portland, Maine, to pray for and raise awareness about teens struggling with addiction, depression or contemplating suicide. Although it was a
Father John Brenner (1931-57), a Hungarian Cistercian priest and martyr, was beatified May 1. Living in communist Hungary, Father Brenner was called to give last rites to a dying man, but it turned out the request was a ruse and instead he
In the early 2000s, Chris Alar was enjoying the good life. He was living in the Lake Norman area of North Carolina and had a nice home on the water, a successful consulting business and was engaged to “the most beautiful girl