On April 9, the La Soufrière volcano erupted on the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, displacing 20,000 people, with some staying in government shelters on the southern part of the island and others traveling to other islands in
The father-daughter reunion at a Catholic school in suburban Chicago was weeks in the making. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Konrad Otachel recently made a surprise visit to St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic School in Palatine to see his daughter, Naomi,
The world that college students inhabit looks different this fall than it did in March, when most U.S. campuses were shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States has been roiled by not just the novel coronavirus but also by
Students returning to Catholic college campuses for the fall semester will find many things changed to mitigate the risk of students, faculty and staff contracting COVID-19, but they will also find some things that have remained constant. Two administrators at Catholic colleges
After seeing public Masses canceled for weeks earlier this year, parishes across the country have reopened even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but are the faithful coming back? Parish and diocesan officials interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor say that while a return
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down large gatherings across the U.S. this spring, organizers planning annual conferences were left with a choice: postpone, with no real assurance of when large gatherings would once again be deemed safe; cancel, and lose the opportunity
When word came that Illinois residents were being asked to stay home and the Archdiocese of Chicago suspended public Masses in mid-March, Chicago-based iconographer Joseph Malham was at loose ends, like so many others. He decided to use the time to create,
As businesses, schools and other institutions across the United States were shuttered to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus in mid-March, Catholic schools took on an extra challenge: finding ways to keep their students and staff not just learning, but connected
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, one of the world's leading experts on safeguarding minors, said the church is suffering "institutional trauma" from clerical sexual abuse, trauma that it must learn to integrate into its theology and understanding of salvation if it is to
In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, Conventual Franciscan Father Ignatius Maternowski parachuted behind German lines near Guetteville, France, a small village in Normandy, with the men of the U.S. Army’s eighty-second Airborne Division. By nightfall, Father Maternowski was dead, believed