National shrine of a beloved Philadelphia saint vandalized February 22, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Panels of three stained-glass windows were shattered at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia in the early morning hours of Feb. 19.
Cardinal, 95, who survived torture is ‘living martyr,’ pope says February 14, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Albanian cardinal who endured decades of imprisonment, torture and forced labor during his country’s crackdown against religion is a “living martyr” who continues to serve Christ at 95 years old, Pope Francis said.
Catholic experts share tips for navigating Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day February 13, 2024By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Saints, World News Catholic couples and liturgical experts are advising how to observe Ash Wednesday — the beginning of the Latin Church’s penitential season of Lent leading up to Easter — which falls on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, this year.
Prayer can change people’s hearts, pope says at canonization Mass February 12, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News St. María Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, devoted herself completely to helping others experience God’s closeness and compassion, Pope Francis said after he declared the 18th-century consecrated laywoman a saint.
Like future saint, share the Gospel with all, pope tells pilgrims February 9, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News In Blessed Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known affectionately as “Mama Antula,” Christians can “find an example and inspiration that revives a preference for the least, for those who society discards and casts aside,” the pope told a group of Argentine pilgrims during a meeting at the Vatican Feb. 9.
Catholic educators, students honor Mother Lange as ‘venerable’ January 30, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints, Schools Archbishop Lori, who called St. Frances Academy “holy ground” during his homily, elicited applause when he said the recognition of Mother Lange as venerable is “something of great importance, not only for this school and not only for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but for the Catholic Church throughout the United States.”
St. John Neumann: A saint for Catholic teachers and former Baltimore pastor January 27, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints, Schools St. John Neumann excelled in the virtues, most notably humility, without which he said “other virtues could be neither genuine nor permanent.”
St. John Paul II National Shrine exhibit tells story of Ulma family’s ‘sacrificial love’ January 21, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News An exhibit on the martyred Ulma family currently on display at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington is a worthy tribute to the Polish family whom Pope Francis said is “for all of us a model to imitate in striving for goodness and in the service of those in need.”
Rare Blessed Carlo Acutis stained-glass window installed in Minnesota adoration chapel January 14, 2024By Dianne Towalski OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Saints, World News During the parish year of the National Eucharistic Revival, one of the oldest adoration chapels in the Diocese of St. Cloud is getting a very special facelift.
Newly translated Padre Pio letters are coming to your email inbox January 5, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The St. Pio Foundation has announced the release of “Epistolary,” a collection of 365 letters written by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, to his spiritual directors and students.
Molokai’s leprosy settlements — the ‘ohana’ of two Catholic saints — faces historic transition December 26, 2023By Naomi Klouda OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News One of the last remaining leprosy settlements in the U.S., on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, testifies to St. Damien’s care as eight remaining patient-residents live out their lives.
Radio Interview: Heroic Story of Ulma Family December 18, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Catholic Review Radio host Father Brian Nolan, pastor of St. Ignatius in Ijamsville, Md., talks with Sofia Maurette, the director of Intercultural Ministry for the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, who worked intimately with the creation of the exhibit of the newly beatified Ulma family soon to be on display at this shrine.