The encounter, with Mary’s questioning and acceptance, is described in Luke 1:26-38.
Feast Day of the Week: Annunciation of the Lord
Palm Sunday: The moral character of Jesus in movies that teach obedience
Movies are a storytelling medium that can be tools to teach an understanding of obedience and moral character to children, teens and adults.
Shannen Dee Williams: A song for Mother Tolton
Mother Tolton’s journey is representative of the thousands of Black laywomen who kept the faith alive when most in the white-dominated church sought to abandon Black Catholics.
Photos of the Week: March 22, 2021
In the spotlight: St. Patrick’s Day, vigil for shooting victims, Myanmar violence
Conflict keeps people from farming, drives some to brink of famine
Conflict is driving four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Burkina Faso and northeastern Nigeria — into famine, the World Food Program warned.
Pope asks Catholics to ‘go to Joseph,’ seek his guidance, says archbishop
Pope Francis wants us to invoke St. Joseph’s protection, “to seek his prayers and guidance, and to learn from the example of his virtue,” said Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, during a special national Mass.
Author brings St. Clare of Assisi out from shadow of St. Francis
Author brings a woman’s sense of perspective, a journalist’s nose for a story, as well as a scholar’s thoroughness to Clare of Assisi.
Vocations answer God’s call to make great dreams come true, pope says
The message, released at the Vatican March 19, the feast of St. Joseph, was dedicated to the saint and “the dream of vocation.”