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Loving the Church, Student with Down Syndrome Becomes Catholic at Easter
At the Easter Vigil April 3, Jessica Rutherford became a full member of the Catholic Church, receiving the sacraments in the same school where she first began learning about Catholicism.
Marathon-Running Bishop Says Exercise Can Help Spiritual Life
In his new book, Running for a Higher Purpose, Bishop Thomas Paprocki uses his life as a runner, and insights from the lives of others — such as Abraham Lincoln, Tommy John and Steve Prefontaine — to guide readers through eight steps to spiritual and physical fitness, which he calls interwoven.
Only in Print: Faith Over Fame for Johnny Cash and The Gospel Road
Johnny Cash’s faith would always take precedence over fame throughout his career. When he approached Sam Phillips at Sun Records in 1954, he introduced himself as “Johnny Cash, Gospel Singer…”
Flushing’s Main Street Patrol Aims to De-Escalate Anti-Asian Attacks
The newly-formed Main Street Patrol deploys more than 60 volunteers who wear purple surgical masks as they walk the streets of Flushing, Queens, watching for anti-Asian hate crimes. The volunteers are trained to intervene without becoming physically involved.
Congregation’s Lawsuit Says Gas Pipeline Violates Its Religious Freedom
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have returned to court arguing that the existence of a 3-year-old natural gas pipeline through their land in Pennsylvania violates their religious freedom rights guaranteed under a 1993 law.
Pope Francis Appoints Bishop for Duluth, Accepts Resignation of New York Auxiliary
Pope Francis has appointed Father Daniel J. Felton, a priest of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and its vicar general, to head the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota.
Faithful Reminded on Easter That Christ ‘Loves Us,’ Is ‘With Us Forever’
On Easter last year, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan looked out on an empty St. Patrick’s Cathedral amid the pandemic and thought, “Oh my God, I don’t mind an empty tomb on Easter but an empty church?”
Graduate Program Aims to Reverse Decline Seen in Catholic Art, Literature
The creation of a new master’s of fine arts degree program in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston marks a breakthrough in a resurgence of Catholic literary arts, said its founders.
Are Increased Vaccinations a Genuine Sign of Hope This Easter?
It’s been said before, in different ways, in different contexts: “the beginning of the end,” “light at the end of the tunnel,” “our long national nightmare is over,” and so on.