1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (419+ words) Father Rother was a priest from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, who was martyred in rural Guatemala in 1981. Father Rother and Archbishop Flynn met while attending Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Later, Father Rother’s bishop gave him permission…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (418+ words) “As hard as it was for him to leave his family, he did just that,” Archbishop Hebda told Leah Heselton, co-host of the “Practicing Catholic” radio show, for an episode set to air at 9 p.m. Aug. 14 on Relevant Radio…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (951+ words) The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents about two-thirds of the nation’s nearly 35,000 sisters, held its annual assembly Aug. 11-14 in Orlando. More than 1,300 congregational leaders and their guests were in attendance. LCWR’s outgoing president, Sister Vicky Larson, a member…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (275+ words) Nine years on, viewers will have the opportunity to learn more about this unique figure with the limited release of “American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story” (Fathom). The documentary will be screened in English Aug. 25 and 26 and in Spanish Aug....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (304+ words) Father Kureh, 59, grew up in Karenni State in Myanmar and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Loikaw in 1993. His home country has experienced much civil unrest in his lifetime, most recently a coup in 2021, which established the military…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (535+ words) CHICAGO (OSV News) — White Sox baseball fans sporting custom-designed black and gold mitre-style hats celebrated Pope Leo XIV, a fellow diehard Sox fan, at a pope-themed game in Chicago Aug. 11. Dominican Sister Mary Jo Sobieck of Springfield, Illinois, threw the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception became home to a second apostle of the Sacred Heart Aug. 2, as the first-class relics in the care of the Knights of Columbus were placed mere steps from the tomb of Greeley, a…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (896+ words) In the plaque at the opening of a long path toward two large sculptures that evoke peace, the Archdiocese of Chicago notes that it is the first U.S. Catholic archdiocese to create such a memorial in a Catholic cemetery. A large…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (974+ words) The pope celebrated Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord for participants in the “Go! Franciscan Youth Meeting,” a four-day gathering of young people ages 18 to 33 from across…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (257+ words) “I think it’s kind of funny (that) sometimes the things we’re doing or trying to do in Edge of the Red Sea, our Church — the roots of our Church — was already teaching these things hundreds of years ago,” Apfelbeck told…...