For more than 40 years, she led the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, using her fortune to establish numerous missions and schools for Indians and African Americans.
Saint of the Week: Katharine Drexel
Heroes of love: New pathway open for future saints
Pope Francis has yet to sign decrees in sainthood causes that follow the new path he approved in 2017, that of giving one’s life in a heroic act of loving service to others.
Catholic Extension initiative aims to help 1,000 poorest parishes in U.S.
It’s the Catholic Kinship Initiative — Parishes United Across America, and it’s designed to match financially stable parishes with a poor parish in another part of the country.
Cardinal’s Lenten meditation: Conversion is call to renew, rekindle faith
In his meditation, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa talked about how the meaning of “conversion” changed in the New Testament.
Sunday Scripture reading: Feb. 28, 2021
Second Sunday of Lent First reading: Gn 22:1-2, 9, 10-13, 15-18 Reponsorial Psalm: 116: 10, 15-19 Second reading: Rom 8:31-34 Gospel: Mk 9:2-10 By Kevin Perrotta […]
Campaign aims to foster respect for religious freedom, religious sites
#forSafeWorship is a campaign to engage youth around the globe in raising awareness of religious freedom and cultivating interreligious respect.
Vatican official insists religious services are ‘essential services’
The ability to practice the faith is “the highest of essential services,” Archbishop Gallagher said in Feb. 23, 2021, remarks touching on the COVID-19 pandemic at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Paschal candle program brings light to prisoners’ lives, chaplain says
Inmates at an Italian prison in Paliano have been participating in a program to decorate paschal candles.