On Christmas Eve, the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey welcomed eleven new men into the community as novices – the largest class in the history of our community. On the day marking the traditional birthday of
American Catholic priests are becoming more conservative, even as their flocks are becoming more liberal. U.S. Catholic bishops elected conservative leaders last month, continuing to resist a push from Pope Francis to put social issues
Father Oreste Trinchieri was a member of the Salesian order, which was founded in 1859 by a young Italian priest, Father John Bosco. Father Bosco made it his life’s work to help street children in his native Turin,
Immersed in prayer, Filipino immigrant Kyle Franz Laluces, 30, of Daly City, feels a strengthening of his lifelong love for the Church and a surging of confidence in the path he chose following a “sign” from St.
Today is St. Gregory’s Day, that impressive governor of Rome who became a monk who became a pope. “I tried to escape the world as a monastic,” he tells us, “but God sent me back to
An advisory panel of theological consultants recently voted to suspend the cause for sainthood for heroic military chaplain Fr. Vincent Capodanno. Writing to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Vatican body responsible for canonization decisions,
Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Freyer of the Diocese of Orange was among the more than eight thousand U.S. pilgrims who gathered on the Mount of Beatitudes in Galilee on July 19 for a vocational meeting of the
Father Jesusmary Missigbètò, expelled from Opus Dei after being suspended for publicly criticizing Pope Francis’ alleged support for same-sex civil unions, writes to the Holy Father in response to his sanction. Jesusmary Missigbètò,
Cardinal-designate Robert McElroy highlighted God’s love as the Good Shepherd as he ordained two men to the priesthood at St. Gabriel Church on June 24. The two — Brad Easterbrooks, 37, and Guillermo
