MASKWACIS, Alberta -- The first step of Pope Francis' "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada involved him returning two pairs of children's moccasins.
The little shoes were not among the Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums, but rather reminders that Chief...
In glistening language, Jeannine Marie Pitas' poetry collection, "Things Seen and Unseen," invites readers to the place where the mundane borders on the extraordinary, where what we can know with our senses is only part of the story.
Broken into...
Jeannine Marie Pitas, a Catholic writer and poet, is a Renaissance woman whose many and varied endeavors are all informed by her faith.
Part of that Catholic viewpoint is looking at the world's challenges and seeing, not hopelessness, but opportunity...
Plenty of toe-tapping was going at Aquinas Academy on July 24 as a crowd assembled for a live performance by the Hillbilly Thomists.
Aquinas Academy, which is marking 25 years of education this coming school year, hosted a concert and...
EDMONTON, Alberta -- After a flight of more than 10 hours from Rome, Pope Francis landed in Edmonton and met briefly at the airport with Indigenous leaders, Canada's governor general and prime minister before heading to the local seminary...
LAGOS, Nigeria -- The body of a priest was discovered July 19, four days after he was abducted from a parish rectory in central Nigeria, an official with the Diocese of Kafanchan reported.
Father John Cheitnum, was one of two...
BALTIMORE — In the 10 days following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, the Archdiocese of Detroit's "Walking with Moms in Need" webpage received nearly 1,600 unique page...
The Catholic Education Department of the Diocese of Wilmington has announced a change to its structure and to the personnel who will be leading it.
Daniel Pin, currently the associate director of the Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry,...
WASHINGTON — An opportunity for more research on ectopic pregnancies cannot be overlooked as controversy over these pregnancies erupted following Roe v. Wade being overturned.
In the weeks since the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision, people have voiced concerns...
VATICAN CITY — Humanity can no longer ignore the cries of the earth that is suffering due to greed and the excessive consumption of its resources, Pope Francis said.
In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation,...