Circles of life, cycles of grace
If I’m totally honest, Mother’s Day is my least favorite “Hallmark holiday” of the year.
Priest, deacons celebrate jubilees
Each year, clergy and religious from the Diocese of Superior gather for a Jubilee Mass celebrated by Bishop James P. Powers.
Stewardship Day features ‘Rebuilt’ author
Tom Corcoran and his pastor, Fr. Michael White, were seeking out new ideas to address the “religious consumerism” they were experiencing in their ministry at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland.
‘Tolkien’ focuses on Catholic author’s love of language, medieval imagery
The necromancer Sauron, the archvillain of “The Lord of the Rings,” makes a cameo appearance in director Dome Karukoski’s “Tolkien.” He looms over the Battle of the Somme in World War I as if he were at home in his realm of Mordor and the bloody conflict had all been his idea.
‘Come, let us reason together’
There were more Christian martyrs in the 20th century than in all of the previous 19 centuries combined. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many of their lesser-known totalitarian colleagues put millions of Christians to death for their faith in that terrible 100-year period.
Jesus is always ready to help free people from evil, pope says
Christians recognize life’s great paradox that so much evil and temptation exist in the world, but that God is always present, too, ready to help and give people the strength to persevere, Pope Francis said.
Alaska thrift shop raises $1 million for a Catholic school
Of all the designer clothes, quirky conversation pieces and valuable antiques that have rotated through the thrift shop, Archangel Attic, maybe the greatest treasure to come from this modest Anchorage shop is the $1 million it has made for Lumen Christi High School in Anchorage.
Good boy! Pup’s trips to Delaware church part of his guide dog training
Every Sunday morning, Mugsy is a familiar sight at St. Jude the Apostle Church in Lewes.
Not ruling on apparitions, pope allows pilgrimages to Medjugorje
Parishes and dioceses are now allowed to organize official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but it must be clear that the Catholic Church has not recognized as authentic the alleged Marian apparitions there.
‘Today God has answered their prayers’: Pakistan releases Asia Bibi
Pakistani authorities freed Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy, and she has flown to Canada to join her family at a secret address.