The Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate are celebrating after Pope Leo XIV declared Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, the founder of their religious community, venerable — a crucial step to becoming a saint.
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Sizzle & Spirit: Learn About These Summer-Related Saints
While there is not a patron saint of summer itself, Catholic tradition links many saints to the weather, activities, and feast days that define the sunny months.
Sen. Lindsey Graham Dies at 71; SC Governor Selects His Sister To Finish His Term
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, died July 11 after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said.
Supper Series: You Too, Can Eat Like a Pope at This NYC Italian Restaurant
Salvo Lo Castro, who served as the chef in the Vatican for 10 years and made many of Pope Benedict XVI’s favorite dishes, has brought his culinary skills to New York City’s Soho with his Italian restaurant Casasalvo.
Queens Parish Celebrates, Honors Newly Beatified Vietnamese Priest
The latest beatified martyr from Vietnam was welcomed into the “mother church of Queens” and the hearts of its parishioners on July 12. Father Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep, murdered in hatred of the faith in 1946, was venerated at the weekly Mass for Vietnamese Catholics at the oldest parish in Queens — Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Astoria.
How the Only Marian Shrine in the United States Was Spared During an 1871 Firestorm
Since 2016, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion has been the first and only Church-approved Marian apparition site in the United States, yet most people have never heard of it.
Heroes With Halos: Shrine Unites Faithful and Saints for Fourth of July Celebration
A small churchyard amid Wisconsin farmland became the site of a big holiday celebration over the Fourth of July weekend. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion hosted an event highlighting the Catholic Saints of America, with relics of 14 saints and blesseds, along with tents of displays from shrines and sainthood guilds around the country.
Planned Parenthood to Receive Medicaid Funds Again as Defunding Provision Expires
A provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year expired July 4, allowing the nation’s largest abortion provider to regain access to hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding.
Who Were the Carrolls: Young Men Who Influenced the American Revolution
Unable to receive a Catholic education in the British colonies in North America, three young men from wealthy Maryland families were sent to Saint-Omer, France, to study at the College of the English Jesuits.
Pope Leo Invites Americans To Cultivate ‘Moral Greatness’ as He Accepts Liberty Medal
Religious liberty “holds sacred the inner sphere of the person where convictions are formed and where conscience can guide the decisions made in the intimacy of the human heart,” said Pope Leo XIV, as he accepted a major civic award for upholding freedom of belief on the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary.