Michelle Duppong's family members get a lot of prayer requests, especially for healing from grave illnesses and dire prognoses, that ask for the intercession of the recently declared "Servant of God."
"It's amazing," Sara Stark, 41, Duppong's older sister, told OSV News. "I've
A reader asks: “I was in high school in 1961 when our bishop changed the name of a local parish that had long been dedicated to St. Philomena. The bishop explained that Rome had real doubts about whether the story about Philomena
Over the course of his nearly 8-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI achieved a great deal for the Church and the world. The following is a numerical look at his reign as pope.
The day after Christmas the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, which emphasizes how the story of Jesus' birth is not a "fairy tale," but a call to live as witnesses of the Gospel, Pope Francis
A reader asks: “Why did God create the universe and mankind?” Monsignor Charles Pope first gives a brief answer: God is love: “The full answer is unknown since God has not fully revealed why he created the universe. However, we can ponder
Bill Dodds offers a reflection on St. Francis de Sales and introduces us to an “Introduction to the Devout Life,” where the saint, Dodds says, “offers uncomplicated, doable, easy-to-remember and easy-to-apply ways we can, well, develop and live a devout life in
Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of members of a Polish family who were sheltering a Jewish family during World War II, and, for the first time, advanced the sainthood cause of a candidate under the category of heroically offering his life out
In his third Turning Points feature, Russell Shaw explores the life of St. Thomas More, known as the “man of all seasons.” Refusing to take an oath of supremacy to King Henry VIII, More was jailed and beheaded on July 6, 1535.
The placement of most saints’ feast days has less to do with the season and more to do with the date of their death. But the Spirit works through that, too, and often the lives of the saints have particular messages that
In his second Turning Point feature, Russell Shaw explores the life of St. Augustine, a headstrong, self-indulgent young man who became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint. Shaw examines the story of Augustine’s conversion as