Peter Bond is a man with ideas. When he experienced a crisis of faith in 2001, he started writing prayers and printing them on cards at his family printing business. One of the things that ...
Several times a year Deacon Bert Bliss, 69, pauses from his duties as a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis to become a hermit. In a cabin-for-one, he prays, rests and walks in ...
Mark Spyropoulos spends three hours a day in music school, practicing with a choir composed of 20 men and 35 boys. The 32-year-old professional baritone from England said the choir leader sometimes has to reprove ...
In March 2015, the outlook for St. Mary of the Lake Parish was grim. The parish, a mainstay of the Miller section of Gary, Indiana, since its founding in 1929, was down to about 40 ...
During a serious illness or health crisis, people often become more concerned about their spiritual well-being, yet priests cannot possibly visit every Catholic in hospitals, in nursing homes and the homebound. Lay Catholics increasingly are ...
“Even though I’m serving a prison sentence of 150 years, I’ve never felt freer,” said J.D. Langston, an inmate at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma. His freedom is knowing God. No walls, rules or ...
Buzzwords like “inclusiveness” and “diversity” rarely are paired in the same breath with “saint” or “heaven.” But at Immaculata Classical Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, those words have been woven into its fabric from the time ...
“It seems to me that private citizens shouldn’t be permitted to own assault rifles any more than … they can own chemical weapons of mass destruction. How about a little common sense in this public ...
Cardinal Bernard F. Law died Dec. 20 in Rome at the age of 86. He retired in 2011 after serving as the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome since 2004. Tainted as the ...
What was the pro-life movement like before the Supreme Court transformed American politics with its ruling in Roe v. Wade? This question would stump most people, including many pro-life activists. Generally, most people associate the ...
