During Lent, tune in to our YouTube channel for a weekly video featuring Benedictine Brother Aelred Senna, a monk of Saint John’s Abbey. He will share a new easy plant-based recipe each week. On the menu this week is Matar paneer, green peas and fresh cheese in tomato gravy.
Matar Paneer is second recipe in Lenten video series with Benedictine Brother Aelred Senna
Brother Aelred Senna cooks Shakshuka in first episode of Lenten video series
During Lent, tune in to our YouTube channel for a weekly video featuring Benedictine Brother Aelred Senna, a monk of Saint John’s Abbey. He will share a new easy plant-based recipe each week. On the menu this week is Shakshuka – Eggs baked in a stew of tomatoes, onion, and garlic. Recipe included.
Olympic ski jumping silver, bronze medals lay on altar as young athlete’s faith goes viral
At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Polish ski jumper Kacper Tomasiak made history — and then went to Mass.
Edina artist prays daily for Pope Leo XIV after painting his portrait for US seminary in Rome
Sheryl Moran, who was trained in the classical realism style of painting, spent roughly 100 hours on a portrait of Pope Leo XIV — an estimate, she said, because “I just get kind of lost in it (the art-making process) and I just do it.”
A quick history of Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent.
The bishop meets ‘the Boss’: New Jersey bishop has impromptu lunch with Bruce Springsteen
New Jersey-based rock legend Bruce Springsteen and Bishop David M. O’Connell of Trenton got together recently for an impromptu lunch in Federici’s Restaurant in Freehold, NJ.
Pope welcomes new Marian mosaic, St. Rose of Lima statue in Vatican Gardens
The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima during a rainy but joyful ceremony that clearly delighted Pope Leo XIV.
Catherine O’Hara’s Catholic roots
Canadian actress who died in Los Angeles at age 71 on Jan. 30, says she was a “good Catholic girl at heart.”


























