Ahead of Memorial Day weekend, a community of contemplative Benedictine sisters in rural Missouri were preparing for as many as 10,000 pilgrims to flock to their monastery to view and pray before the body of their foundress, whose recently exhumed body is claimed to be incorrupt.
Two second-grade students at Overbrook Catholic School in Nashville have been "busy bees" the last month, making 2,500 beaded bracelets, and it's for one very special reason -- to raise $17,000 to purchase a therapy dog for the students of The Covenant School, where an assailant killed six people including three 9-year-old students March 27.
"Blessed are the young," said Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, "for they shall inherit the national debt." Hoover's witty mangling of Matthew 5:5 still gets a laugh today, just as it surely did when he made the wisecrack in 1936.
While Canada is fighting wildfires from western Alberta province to eastern Nova Scotia, at least one priest is on the frontlines of the battle in firefighter uniform.
Had it not been for a Pentecost prayer vigil, St. Anthony Catholic Church in downtown Davenport would not have been open at 5 p.m. on a Sunday night, said its pastor, Father Rudolph Juarez. Tenants fleeing from a partially collapsed apartment building a little more than a block away were grateful for that blessing the night of May 28.
For a second straight year, Archbishop Bernard Hebda celebrated the vigil Mass of Pentecost at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul with hundreds of people remaining afterward for more than an hour to pray and sing hymns of praise and worship.
Encouraging them to follow the Holy Spirit wherever he leads in their ministry, Archbishop Bernard Hebda ordained four men to the priesthood on the eve of Pentecost May 27 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
A 30-hour drive from San Diego to Minnesota in 2015 helped pave a path to the priesthood for transitional Deacon John Rumpza, who grew up in St. Paul and attended Nativity of Our Lord parish.
Transitional Deacon Ryan Glaser recalled fall of his senior year at St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul when he brought to prayer where he should enroll for the rest of his seminary studies: The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul or the North American College (NAC) in Rome.
