For three Franciscans from the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — postulants Jimmy Beh and Thomas Pack and Father Steven Kuehn — joining the 800-plus-year-old religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi was not just a proverbial leap of faith.
Carl Bohman trains young people in his rural southeastern Indiana parish how to assist at Mass as altar servers, much like adult volunteers do in parishes across the Indianapolis Archdiocese.
But Bohman doesn't just instruct them. He serves at Mass alongside them --
This week the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board raises a critical question in today’s evolving healthcare landscape: whether enough is being done to bridge the gap between institutional and in-home healthcare. Families face many challenges when a loved one falls ill, often
Nicole Snook writes Joseph Potenzana, a 93-year-old, is set to wed Mary Elkind, 84, on Oct. 15 at Our Lady of the Visitation in Paramus, New Jersey. The couple first met 64 years ago at a wedding during which they both were
The Gospel calls Christians to bring the elderly to the center of their lives and away from the margins of families, politics and financial markets that banish them as "unprofitable waste" in society, Pope Francis said.
"Let it not happen that by pursuing
So, you’ve graduated from being a parent to a grandparent. Whether this happened recently or years ago, congratulations! The role of grandparents is underappreciated in our culture, and it’s also a big responsibility. As Bill Dodds writes in his entertaining style, “It
When the first Sisters of Nazareth embraced the legacy of their founder Victoire Larmenier, they dedicated their lives to sharing the love of God through their ministries of care and education, and their “openness to the needs of the times.” The needs
God wants young people to bring joy to the hearts of the elderly and to learn from their experiences, Pope Francis said.
"Yet, above all, the Lord wants us not to abandon the elderly or to push them to the margins of life,
Pope Francis has chosen "His mercy is from age to age," a passage from the Gospel of Luke, as the theme for the 2023 celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
On the world day, which will be celebrated July
Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118
Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.
"There is great sadness but ... it was her desire to join her