There are as many reasons for coming back to the church as there are people who left. While God is at the center of each person’s decision to return, the circumstances are varied. Here are 10 reasons that influenced the decision of others to return to the practice of the Catholic faith.
Healing was a primary ministry of Jesus; today, the Church seeks to be the hand of the Lord reaching out in healing and in the midst of human struggle or diminishment.
If we are to be a synodal church, we must do this; we must show that the church is listening, and has heard the reverberating cries of our victims, and of those who have left the pews out of disgust for our sins, and that it is genuinely and demonstrably repentant.
A Maine parish has become a hub of healing as its community grapples with a devastating mass shooting. A recent prayer vigil commemorated the 18 victimsthat were killed.
Irving Houle had prayed for, and apparently received throughout the last 16 years of his life, the privilege to share in Christ’s sufferings as a disciple in a particularly unique way; he apparently had the stigmata.
A new resource for tracking Native residential schools affiliated with the Catholic Church marks a major advance toward healing the wounds of systemic abuse, said project organizers.
In this documentary, to be rereleased in theaters Feb. 8 and 9, filmmakers Alban Teurlai and Thierry Demaiziere present a moving portrait of one of the world’s most popular pilgrimage sites and of the suffering people who are drawn to it.
Father John Hollowell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, announced Jan. 30 that his brain cancer has disappeared following a June 2022 pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Lourdes, France.
