The new school year for CCD kicks-off this weekend in all the parishes around the diocese. Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP, who is the director of the Office of Religious Education…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People need to have true compassion so they feel others’ pain and are moved to help, Pope Francis said. “Compassion is an emotion that engages, it…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As search and rescue operations continued in central Mexico, where more than 200 people died after a strong earthquake Sept. 19, Pope Francis offered his prayers…
DETROIT (CNS) — Father Joseph Kim serves in a diocese divided. On one side of the valley, there are the billionaires: the Facebooks, the Googles, the Apples. On the other…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To better prepare priests and pastoral workers to help meet the challenges families face today, Pope Francis is strengthening the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis talks about the need for a “healthy decentralization” in the Catholic Church, but how that should look and work has been a topic of…
MOSCOW (CNS) — Catholics across Russia are celebrating the centenary of the 1917 apparitions of Mary to shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. According to one of the children, Sister Lucia…
OUR LADY OF MERCY Patroness of the Mercedarian Order On the night of the first to the second of August in the year 1218, the Blessed Mother appeared to Peter…