Reel Time with Sister Rose

Rose Pacatte, FSP August 25, 2022

Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, reviews “Don’t Make Me Go,” “Persuasion,” and “Where the Crawdads Sing” in our September issue!

Praying Always

Laura Stanko Britto August 23, 2022

Just as there are seasons in the year, there are seasons in our prayer lives.

Couple credits Blessed McGivney for saving husband from COVID-19

OSV News August 19, 2022

It’s miraculous Joseph and Megan Hermosillo were able to walk across the Thomaston Opera House stage together Aug. 13.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Stained Glass Window

Jane Frances de Chantal was a wife and the mother of six. When her husband was killed, Saint Jane Frances took a vow not to remarry and sought to join a religious community. She was dissuaded by her spiritual director, Saint Francis de Sales.

Loving St. Clare of Assisi

Sister Claire André Gagliardi, OSC August 11, 2022

Within each of us is the potential to be a light focusing attention on God’s presence in our world. Clare of Assisi’s life reveals just how much light she shed.

Longtime peace educator Marie Dennis is Pax Christi USA’s Teacher of Peace

OSV News August 9, 2022

For more than 50 years, Marie Dennis has been asking herself as a white middle-class woman who once worked for the U.S. Navy how she could respond as a Catholic to the cries for justice of people around the world.

Saint John Vianney

Franciscan Media August 4

Saint John Vianney is best known as the Curé d’Ars, the little French town where he was pastor. John had great trouble with his studies and almost didn’t get ordained.

Pastor of St. Peter’s Basilica: Friar helps tourists become pilgrims

OSV News August 3, 2022

In his small office next to the world’s largest Catholic Church, Conventual Franciscan Father Agnello Stoia spoke about the unique joys and challenges of being the pastor of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Commitment to multicultural Canada needs real effort, pope says

OSV News July 28, 2022

In a British-built fort on the highest hill in Quebec City, Pope Francis spoke to Canadian government and cultural leaders about the never-ending challenge of multiculturalism.

Blessed Stanley Rother

Franciscan Media July 28

Blessed Stanley Rother grew up in Oklahoma on his parents’ farm in what could be described as a normal environment. Life changed radically for him when he was ordained a priest in 1963, and again in 1968, when he volunteered for the missions in Guatemala. But the final change came when civil war reached his parish in 1980. He was assassinated on July 28, 1981.