by Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 21, 2022 / 17:00 pm Catholics recognize Easter — when Christ rises from the dead after sacrificing his life for all of humanity — as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. But, as it turns …

St. George was a soldier of the Roman army who was tortured and beheaded for his Christian faith in the year 303, in Lydda (in modern day Palestine). He was likely born in Cappadocia, of a Cappadocian father and a Palestinian mother of noble rank. At the death of his …

Cauis and Soter, Popes of the early Church, are both venerated in tradition as martyrs, though no reliable account of their martyrdom survives today. St. Soter was born in Fundi, in Italy. The date of his birth is unknown but we know that he was Pope for eight years from …

by Joe Bukuras Crookston, Minn., Apr 20, 2022 / 15:19 pm “Providential” is the word that Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston used to describe the April 25 release of “ALIVE: Who is there?”, a movie highlighting the transformative power of the Eucharist. He said the movie is timed perfectly for …

by Shannon Mullen Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 21, 2022 / 07:52 am When Vicki Thorn was Catholic teen in rural Minnesota, a close friend confided to her that she’d gotten pregnant a year earlier and that her mother had arranged for her to have an abortion. “All I could do …

On April 21, the Catholic Church honors Saint Anselm, the 11th and 12th-century Benedictine monk and archbishop best known for his writings on Christ’s atonement and the existence of God. In a general audience given on Sept. 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI remembered St. Anselm as “a monk with an …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 20, 2022 / 03:20 am To not honor the elderly as God commands, and to treat them as something to discard, “is a grave sin,” Pope Francis said on Wednesday. During his weekly meeting with the public in St. Peter’s Square on April 20, …

by Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 20, 2022 / 08:44 am A West Virginia priest is speaking publicly about his role in providing a funeral Mass and dignified burial for more than 100 aborted babies that pro-life activists say they rescued outside of a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. “I …

by Courtney Mares Rome, Italy, Apr 20, 2022 / 07:00 am Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán died Wednesday morning in Rome at the age of 89. The Mexican cardinal is remembered for his service at the Vatican as the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 19, 2022 / 04:50 am Pope Francis has named a priest of Helena, Mont., Father Jeffrey Fleming, coadjutor bishop of the state’s other diocese, Great Falls-Billings. Fleming, 56, has been Chancellor and moderator of the Curia of western Montana’s Diocese of Helena since 2020. …