Sister Mary Charitas is a member of the Bethlehem Monastery of the Poor Clares of Barhamsville, Virginia. As their website indicates, they are a cloistered monastic community in the tradition of St. Francis of Assisi […]
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., 72, was born in Concordia, Kansas, in 1944. He attended Catholic schools in the area before joining the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, St. Augustine Province, in 1965. He […]
Sister Mary Jordan is a member of the Dominican Monastery of St. Jude in Marbury, Alabama. The cloistered community was founded in 1944 and welcomed women of all ethnic backgrounds, a practice not typical of the […]
The 2016 Theology of the Body (TOB) Congress will be held Friday, September 23, through Sunday, September 25 (with a “Pre-Congress” Thursday, September 22) at the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California. The event will […]
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 61, grew up in a Catholic home in the Kansas City area. His family was active in the Catholic community; his mother was a parish secretary and […]
Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa (1910-1997) on Sunday, September 4. In 2015, the Vatican recognized the miraculous healing through her intercession of a Brazilian man with multiple brain abscesses, the second miracle required to […]
Bishop James Conley is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. The Midwestern diocese is home to 96,000 Catholics who attend 134 parishes and missions. The bishop grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, […]
Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures will release its remake of Ben-Hur on Friday, August 19. The movie is a retelling of the 1880 novel by retired Civil War Union General Lew Wallace, and it follows Jewish prince […]
Mark Burnett is an award-winning television producer and president of MGM Television and Digital Group. He has produced a variety of well-known television and cable shows, including Survivor and Celebrity Apprentice. He is married to […]
A very unique institution of Catholic higher education will begin offering classes this October. Dr. Patrick Owens is academic dean of the Scholasticum, a new institute headquartered in Italy dedicated to medieval theology and philosophy […]
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