When his critically ill son Adrian, 7, went into cardiac arrest in October 2022, Arek Szura made a promise to God: "If you let him walk out of this hospital, I will walk from our house on my hands and knees to
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills examines from a different perspective the passage in Scripture where Christ asks his followers to “take up your cross and follow me.” Mills asks, sincerely: What if the cross you’ve been given wasn’t accepted by choice?
None of us is immune to sickness and death. All of us will experience it ourselves, and we experience it in different ways with those around us. It would do all of us well to be more fully aware of what resources
A priest who offered up his suffering from cancer for the sake of clerical abuse victims said he has experienced a miraculous healing following a June 2022 pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Lourdes, France.
Father John Hollowell, a priest of the Archdiocese
The way individual Catholics and their parishes care for the sick offers a precise measure of just how much they either are part of or are fighting the "throwaway culture" that ignores or discards anyone seen as flawed or weak, Pope Francis
Saying that retired Pope Benedict XVI was "very sick," Pope Francis asked people to offer special prayers for him.
"I would like to ask all of you for a special prayer for emeritus Pope Benedict," Pope Francis said at the end of his
Father John A. Moineau has been praying for a miracle, and thousands who are following his videos are praying for him and with him as he faces the difficulties of a treatable but incurable disease. They’re touched by his honesty about his
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez shares the story of her friend Deirdre McQuade, who is in her last days battling cancer: “And every moment, excruciating as it can be with pain and the sure knowledge that life is at its end for family
Cancer — or any other major illness — might be a challenge to our faith. Or it can help our faith grow deeper than it has ever been before. The choice is up to us. Susan Erschen knows this first hand. In
In late September, Bishop Richard F. Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, ordained Ken Conklin to the order of the diaconate nine months ahead of his classmates. Deacon Conklin, whose health has deteriorated because of cancer, and who recently entered hospice