1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (571+ words) Have you ever realized the unique things about the places where we live? When I was a kid, my dad’s Air Force job led us to a base in southern California. One of the coolest things in California’s fourth grade…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (687+ words) (OSV News) — This year’s Sept. 7 observance of Labor Day underscores Pope Leo XIV’s call to be “builders of communion” while safeguarding human dignity, as artificial intelligence “reshapes our economy and our work,” said Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (917+ words) August is a particularly important month for Augustinians, the Order of St. Augustine of Hippo to which Pope Leo XIV belongs, as the Catholic Church celebrates a number of Augustinian saints. St. Augustine himself and his mother, St. Monica, are…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (384+ words) On July 4, I went with my husband and children to visit Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. One of the key features of the Revolutionary War was the rejection of England’s King George III and the turn toward representative…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (949+ words) When seminarian Charlie Tamayo was in high school, he attended the annual Quo Vadis retreat for young men discerning their vocation, each year from 2016-2018. “I got to know the seminarians we had at that time, most of whom now serve…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (483+ words) Tucked away in Barhamsville, the Poor Clares dedicate their lives to Christ. A contemplative order, the women live in seclusion and poverty, rejecting material possessions and modern indulgences, just as their namesake St. Clare did centuries ago. “A Christian and…...

1+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (858+ words) It was during the “Jesus Freak Movement” that the long-haired, bell-bottomed Father Gregory Kandt decided to make Jesus the center of his life. “Like my older brother and sister, I kind of identified with the counterculture as a youth,” said…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (916+ words) The journey to priesthood for Father Dan Brady, who recently retired as pastor of St. Michael, Glen Allen, was anything but direct. A native New Yorker, his parents were nominally Catholic, but not practicing. His faith was instead fostered by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (555+ words) JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. (OSV News) — A parish-based rosary-making ministry in Kentucky is on a mission to create 1,000 World Mission Rosaries for the beatification of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen. The apostolate, called the Brothers and Sisters of St. Edward, is among many…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (432+ words) Sister Virginia Marie MacNeil, CSC, is celebrating 75 years of consecrated life as a Sister of Sister Virginia Marie made her initial profession of vows with the Sisters of the Holy Cross on February 2, 1951, and her perpetual profession on August 15, 1954. She…...