Faith helps Olympic weightlifter from Indiana take an unexpected path to Paris August 10, 2024By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: News, Olympics, Sports, World News Mary Theisen-Lappen could never have planned out her own path to the Summer Olympics in Paris.
Despite long wait, chance to venerate saints’ relics offers ‘graces’ for congress-goers July 29, 2024By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, Saints, World News Saints and blesseds whose relics were available for veneration in the chapel included the four patron saints of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Junipero Serra. The relic of Mary featured in the chapel was part of her veil.
Priests have worldwide reach in serving as national Eucharistic preachers April 11, 2024By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Nearly two years ago, the two priests who serve in the Indianapolis Archdiocese were selected by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as two of more than 50 national eucharistic preachers in support of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival.
78-year-old altar server passes on love of Eucharist to younger generation March 15, 2024By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Carl Bohman trains young people in his rural southeastern Indiana parish how to assist at Mass as altar servers, much like adult volunteers do in parishes across the Indianapolis Archdiocese.
Holy Spirit ‘propels us’ out of comfort zone, says synod’s spiritual adviser December 17, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News Some people came to the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican in October “with the hope that it would bring dramatic change to the life of the church,” Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe said in a talk in Indianapolis Dec. 6. “Other people hoped it would exactly change nothing.”
New stage for U.S. seminarians focuses on human and spiritual formation September 21, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News The sixth edition of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Program of Priestly Formation, or PPF, which began to be implemented last year, mandates a “propaedeutic” (pro-pih-DOO-tic) stage for all men first entering into seminary.
New prep program, modeled after ‘catechumenate,’ aims to strengthen marriages in faith August 25, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News This “marriage catechumenate” model is an effort to return to the early church’s approach to forming adults to be received into the church.
Key to Eucharistic revival is ‘to reclaim, understand why we go to Mass,’ priest says August 1, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Theology on Tap is now popular enough in Indianapolis that it has outgrown each bar or restaurant where it has taken place.
Pro-life activist acquitted in federal court finds spiritual meaning in arrest, trial February 21, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Uncategorized, World News Mark Houck, a pro-life activist and leader of The King’s Men, a nationwide Catholic men’s ministry, stood before 1,200 Catholic men Feb. 18 at a conference at East Central High School in St. Leon in southeastern Indiana.
