In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Derek Rotty shares how St. Peter Claver is the perfect patron for race relations in our day and age. Rotty writes: “We stand in a moment of American history that calls for a new
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of a young mother of three who died of cancer after delaying chemotherapy treatment in order to save the life of her unborn child.
The pope signed decrees recognizing the heroic virtues of one man and two
El Salvador has set a Jan. 22 date for the beatifications of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto and two laymen, the Salvadoran bishops' conference announced Aug. 27.
All four were martyred during the country's civil conflict in the 1970s and
Various international agencies report that over 70 million Christians have been murdered for their faith since the time of Christ’s passion. The same agencies claim that upwards of 45 million such murders took place in the 20th century; other reports say as
Author and photographer Linda Schaefer shares how her life was impacted by Mother Teresa. Shaefer had lost her husband to cancer and she was invited to “Come and see” at Mother Teresa’s invitation. In 1995, the photographer visited the motherhouse and was
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
At 10:50 on the morning of July 27, Father J. David Carter's voice rang out at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga: "We are about to lift the coffin from the grave."
And with that, the sainthood cause of Father Patrick Ryan, who has
An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world's first K-12 school to be named after a teenage computer programmer beatified by Pope Francis last year.
Blessed Carlo Acutis College will have a liberal arts focus, and Bishop Columba
A reader asks: “Protestants often criticize Catholics for praying to Mary and the saints. They say this is a violation of the First Commandment. Or, to look at the question from another perspective: If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, why not pray
Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Wichita Diocese who laid down his life as a military chaplain during the Korean War, received South Korea's highest military decoration posthumously in Seoul July 27.
Ray Kapaun, Father Kapaun's nephew, accepted the Order of Military