Do you need some help finding a confirmation saint? Meg Hunter-Kilmer offers a guide and poses some questions for finding a good spiritual companion. She also suggests some helpful books and encourages, if possible, a pilgrimage to a saint’s shrine. She notes:
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
The idea for the documentary came to Franciscan Sister Judith Ann Zielinski, who wrote and produced the film, after
On the 55th anniversary of his death in Vietnam, Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno was remembered at a Mass celebrated in his hometown in a chapel that bears his name.
More than 250 people filled the Father Capodanno Memorial Chapel at Fort Wadsworth in
Beatifying Blessed John Paul I, Pope Francis praised the late pope for showing the world God's goodness and for living the Gospel without compromise.
"Our new blessed lived that way: in the joy of the Gospel, without compromises, loving to the very end,"
A battlefield commander's radio message pierced the frenzied bustle at the headquarters for the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment.
Top brass expected lots of casualties during "Operation Swift" -- an assault aimed at sweeping enemy troops from a strategic rice-producing valley
From the first glimpses the world had of him from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica following his election to the papacy on August 28, 1978, Pope John Paul I charmed the world. He had a contagious smile, was refreshingly plainspoken,
Colleen Pressprich writes: “As we approach Mother Teresa’s Sept. 5 feast day this year, and with it the 25th anniversary of her death, I know that I cannot be the only one trying to think of ways to honor her legacy. …
Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of Hungarian Father Péter Oros, who was killed at the height of the Cold War by Soviets in Ukraine.
During a meeting Aug. 5 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the
Each June, for more than 60 years, dozens of Italian Americans on Galveston Island in Texas have gathered at Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Holy Family Parish in Galveston to honor the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
The annual
A reader writes: “Our new priest often does not celebrate the saint listed for the day at Mass. He just wears green and says the prayers from Sunday. This upsets and confuses some of us. What are the requirements for the priest?”