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
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills tells the story about a time he was at his local gathering place to watch a football game when he got an unusual feeling that he should leave the bar and head home. When he arrived,
Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, writes in his latest column about a couple he knew well who struggled with infertility for years. “Not long after we met,” he writes, “Like many couples I’ve come to know as a priest,
A reader asks: “The wedding feast at Cana is regarded as Jesus’ first miracle. However, wasn’t the multitude of fishes at Peter’s calling really the first miracle?” Monsignor Charles Pope puts the miracles into context: “Your premise that the miracle of the
As we enter into Advent, OSV publisher Scott Richert explores the Gospel reading for the First Monday of Advent, in which hear the story of the centurion who called upon Jesus to heal his dying servant: “The Church places the words of
The local ABC-TV affiliate in Quincy, where Father Augustus Tolton grew up and is buried, reported April 14 that Vatican representatives were in the United States to investigate possible miracles related to the priest's sainthood cause.
Father Tolton was born into slavery and
In the year 1300, a priest was celebrating Mass in the convent of O Cebreiro, Spain. Lacking faith in the true presence of Jesus in the sacrament, the priest nevertheless recited the consecration prayers.
Suddenly, the host he held in his hand turned
In an age where most Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, the modern truth-seeker might need more than passages from the Bible or excerpts of the Catechism. Instead, he might be motivated to be
As Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, presided at a memorial Mass and reentombment of the body of Father Patrick Ryan at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a possible miracle attributable to the Chattanooga priest may already be in
In years when the Church reads the Gospel of Mark, which is the shortest of the Gospels, we spend mid-summer Masses listening to the Bread of Life discourse in the Gospel of John. John 6, as we will see over the next