U.S. Catholic bishops recognized canonization causes underway for three American women Nov. 16 during their plenary assembly in Baltimore. The causes of Mother Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy, foundress of the San Antonio-based Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate; Cora Louise Evans,
As many would likely tell you themselves, bishops in the United States have been called a lot of names, with Most Reverend and Your Excellency making up only part of the list. But there’s one name currently under consideration for a select
For more than a thousand years, pilgrims have walked hundreds of miles through the countryside in France, Western Europe and the Iberian Peninsula to venerate what tradition holds are the relics of St. James the Great in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
This is the third in a series that will look at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series will run in the first issue of each month throughout 2018. Coming to the throne
It’s Respect Life Sunday, and today parishes across the nation will emphasize the current issues that threaten the sanctity of human life. Although abortion is the pre-eminent respect-life issue, other threats to human dignity exist, including the death penalty, suicide, embryonic stem-cell
Tucked away behind Nativity Square, not far from the Church of the Nativity that, according to Christian tradition, marks the spot where Jesus was born in the manger, is the Milk Grotto. This is the location where, according to another tradition, Mary