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People who work at sea live their faith in a peculiar way. The time ships spend in ports is becoming shorter and shorter, and docks are increasingly further away from cities. The spiritual accompaniment of seafarers requires collaboration and synergy, as well as hope and faith in the face of change. Deacon Ricardo Rodríguez-Martos is Read More…

Shepherds of sailors: Challenges of Christian life at sea

Bringing “the sacred to the profane.” That is what one Minnesota diocesan priest has accomplished by curating the “Vatican Unveiled” exhibit that just completed a public display at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. The exhibit was hosted by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in celebration of the diocese’s 175th anniversary. Fr. Richard Read More…

How a class project led to largest collection of papal artifacts outside Rome

Sr. Thea Bowman, a religious of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is currently on her way to potentially being recognized as a canonized Catholic saint. The Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, is in charge of her cause for canonization and has recently completed its local investigation into her life. Nate Tinner-Williams Read More…

Sr. Thea Bowman’s cause for canonization moves on to Rome

Nearly 90 years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a discovery inside a small parish church near Madrid has reopened a painful chapter many believed fully documented. During recent restoration work at Santa María del Castillo in Campo Real, workers uncovered a glass bottle hidden beside a grave. Inside was a folded document Read More…

Message in a bottle reveals how a Servant of God died

“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.

When the next location for the Olympics was announced in 2022, the Archdiocese of Milan was uniquely poised to do something extraordinary to celebrate. The world will soon tune in to the 2026 Milan Olympics, but young Catholics across the archdiocese have been preparing for the last three years through the Ora Sport on Fire Read More…

Milanese children prepared for the Olympics for 3 years

Retirement often arrives with a strange mix of relief and restlessness. The pace slows, calendars open up, and suddenly there’s space in the day, in the home, and sometimes in the heart. It’s no surprise that many people find themselves looking around and thinking: Do I really need all of this? A recent retirement checklist Read More…

The essential reasons you need to declutter in retirement

Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.

Over two winter days at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV returned — personally and pastorally — to a country that has shaped his priestly memory: Peru. Through the inauguration of new devotional images and a candid address to Peruvian bishops, the Pope traced a quiet but deliberate line between memory and mission, grounding the Church’s Read More…

Pope Leo brings Peru to Vatican; a trip coming soon?

“I told him about the abuse,” David Ryan said. “I did get a feeling of being listened to and being understood.” A victim of clerical sexual abuse from Ireland shared his story in a private [...]