We are fast approaching one of the Church’s great solemnities: the feast of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated on the 8th December. In many countries this day is a holy day…
Matthew Leonard brought the fire of an evangelist to the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio.Even though Matthew, who lives in Steubenville, Ohio, spends…
Earlier this fall, the annual White Coat Dedication and Blessing of the Hands Ceremony was held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. This ceremony reminds…
In 2019, getting ready for the Chrism Liturgy at Santa Fe Cathedral, Santa Fe, New Mexico, I overheard two sacristans talk about an encounter one of them had earlier that…
In the early hours of D- Day, June 6, 1944, military chaplain Fr. Ignatius Maternowski parachuted into the occupied territory of the hamlet of Guetteville in the town of Picauville.…
Mauro Cardinal Gambetti, in his mid-50s, is one of the youngest cardinals in the Church. He is also the first Conventual Franciscan to be created a cardinal in the last…