Local News
Father Donio receives Knights’ highest award for work as chaplain
Pallottine Father Frank S. Donio, a former pastoral director of St. Jude Shrine in Baltimore, earned the 2025 International Blessed Michael McGivney Medal, the highest honor given annually to a Knights of Columbus chaplain.
Mount St. Mary’s launches new physician assistant program
Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg is directly addressing Maryland’s growing healthcare crisis with the launch of a new physician assistant (PA) initiative. Recently granted provisional accreditation, it will welcome its inaugural class in January 2026.
Radio Interview: The Vatican Observatory
Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jesuit Father Paul Gabor, vice director of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., about the intersection between faith and science.
Sister Rita Ann Naughton, I.H.M., dies at 88
Sister Rita Ann Naughton (formerly known as Sister Mary Sarto) of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary July 23.
World News
Pope calls for nuclear disarmament, real commitment to peace
The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities’ streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope visits teen who fell ill during Jubilee of Youth, prays with family
Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.
Journey together, seek real encounters, pope advises young people
A solo traveler, even using Google maps and ChatGPT, cannot safely and happily complete the journey of life or the journey of faith, Pope Leo XIV told thousands of young pilgrims meeting at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Indian nuns released on conditional bail; advocates, superiors call their arrest ‘unlawful’
Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth jailed for alleged human trafficking and forced conversion in central India have been released on bail under strict conditions by a special court dealing with terror cases.
Commentary
The popes at Tor Vergata: From John Paul II’s vision to Leo’s witness
Twenty-five years after World Youth Day 2000, the world watched as another pope came to meet the youth of the church, again at Tor Vergata. Leo XIV, just a few months into his pontificate, stepped onto the world stage on a summer evening in 2025.
Faith’s family tree
Our family histories vary widely. But all of us share a lineage of spiritual fathers and mothers whose words and deeds also make us what we are.
Walking with saints
I’m inspired by the old adage, “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” I’m called to ask, what saints have influenced me? How am I called to be a saint? And how do “my” saints walk with me on that journey?
Our Lady of the Snows: An unlikely patron in August
The optional memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major, celebrated on Aug. 5, recalls the importance of Mary in the life of the church. But it also calls to mind the Marian title of “Our Lady of the Snows.”
A Small Gift on a Cloudy Day
For a moment, as I reached for the church door, I hesitated. I could go back to the car for an umbrella.
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