Historical Anniversaries

Cardinal Ferrão, the president of India’s bishops’ conference and archbishop of Goa and Daman, talked about a parish’s success with pastoral family visits and phone-free family evenings.

The Oct. 7-14 closed-door meeting of bishops, convened by Pope Leo, is focused on marriage and family.

Venerable Nelson Baker might say the greater victory is in finding the face of Christ in vulnerable young people whom his City of Charity served and still serves today.

Each year on Oct. 3, followers of St. Francis mark the globally popular saint’s journey from life to death through special community commemorations of the Transitus.

Each year on Oct. 3, the followers of St. Francis of Assisi — friars; nuns; laypeople — mark the saint’s journey from life to death, his “Transitus” as it is …

Organizers of the event said they aimed to mark the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday “with Scripture, testimony, prayer, and rededication of our country as One Nation to God.”

For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration.

In recent years, it has become a little tradition in Rome to celebrate the anniversary of Cardinal Newman’s birthday with a Mass in the chapel where he celebrated his first …

The Catholic reader of Jane Austen’s novels should find them to be dramas of conscience, charity and growth.

In many ways, “Gaudium et Spes,” or the “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,” is the culmination of what the Second Vatican Council hoped to accomplish, the …