The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter's Square during a late afternoon ceremony Dec. 5. The 85-foot-tall spruce tree came from the forests of the Veneto ...
De La Salle Christian Brother James Santiago Miller, who died a martyr on Feb. 13, 1982, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, will be beatified in Guatemala on Dec. 7. While his martyrdom brought his saintliness to light, ...
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope if John the Baptist recognized that Jesus was the Messiah. There are different views on how to understand this. One view holds that John is not confused at all ...
Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals reviewed aspects of the draft of the apostolic constitution that would govern the Roman Curia, including a greater role for lay men and women. The Vatican press office ...
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board writes: “Our frenzied, black-and-cyber consumerism of the season formerly known as Advent draws us away from our preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas — and, even more ...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, and named Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, New York, as Buffalo's apostolic administrator. The changes were announced in Washington ...
Each Advent, we hear reflections that remind us to make more room in our hearts for God. But do we have room for him in our homes and families? Online you'll find six suggestions by ...
Just two weeks after announcing that the long-awaited date of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s beatification had been set, the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, announced Dec. 3 that the celebration planned for Dec. 21 was being ...
A plan of amends that requires former Bishop Michael Bransfield to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution had to be “substantial,” said his successor, Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia. “It ...
Most of us do not live with life altering physical disabilities like blindness and deafness. But we often can be blind and deaf to the will of God. Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes that on ...
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