Our Sunday Visitor contributor Russell Shaw writes about the life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and his upcoming beatification Dec. 21 in Peoria, Illinois. The Church Archbishop Sheen loved and served so well is preparing ...
Bishop Paul D. Sirba of Duluth, Minnesota, died at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth Dec. 1. He was 59. According to a statement from the diocese's vicar general, Father James Bissonette, Bishop Sirba ...
As Advent approached, Pope Francis gave a small fragment of Jesus' crib back to Catholics in the Holy Land. At the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Nov. 22, experts from the Vatican Museums extracted ...
In the Opening the Word for the Second Sunday of Advent, Timothy O’Malley writes that the voice of John the Baptist still cries out to us. We hear it in the Scriptures, as we stand ...
On Dec. 1, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ apostolic letter Admirabile Signum on the importance and meaning of the Christmas crèche. In his letter, the pope draws on Scripture and Tradition to remind the faithful ...
In a new apostolic letter, Admirabile Signum, released Dec. 1, Pope Francis writes about the meaning and importance of Nativity scenes, encouraging us to look at them with fresh eyes. The staff at Our ...
WASHINGTON (CNS) — If the use of the rosary as a devotion fell off at some point in the past, that’s not the case now, according to Gretchen R. Crowe, Our Sunday Visitor’s editorial director ...
In Part 7 of his ongoing series, the Life of Christ, Russell Shaw explores the kingdom of God and looks at the parables of the good Samaritan and the prodigal son. These parables tell us ...
Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, has asked the former bishop of the diocese to pay back more than $792,000 to cover the "inappropriate expenditure of diocesan funds to support a luxurious lifestyle."
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis led prayers for the people of Albania after the country was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake. “I would like to send my greetings and my closeness to the ...
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