Sister Rosalind Gefre, 94, the Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet who founded a massage school and rose to fame as the beloved masseuse of the St. Paul Saints, is receiving special recognition this summer. She will be honored at the Aug. 10 Saints game with an appreciation night, when the first 1,500 fans will receive a bobblehead called “The Massaging Nun.”
About the same time Chicago-area native George Robert Newhart was inching his way from an accounting job toward a career in comedy, his older sister Joan was professing her final vows as a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has estimated that, on a single night in early 2023, more than 650,000 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness — a 12% increase from 2022.
The Vatican is installing a new set of nine bullet-proof and shatter-proof glass panels in front of one of its most famous works of art, Michelangelo's marble "Pietà" sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica.
As five days of the National Eucharistic Congress concluded with one final revival and a beautiful solemn Mass in Lucas Oil Stadium -- Bishop Andew Cozzens of Crookston, board chairman of the National Eucharistic Congress Inc., stood in Lucas Oil Stadium.
Even before the July 21 announcement that National Eucharistic Congress organizers are considering holding another congress in just a few years, 9-year-old Thomas Gangestad had prayed for it.
As Paris stands in the starting blocks for the 2024 Olympic Games that kick off July 26, the Olympic truce was launched in the iconic La Madeleine church in the heart of the French capital July 19.
The five days of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis could not have ended in a more fitting way -- with the celebration of the Eucharist with more than 50,000 people gathered at Lucas Oil Stadium.
