National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Makes Maryland Stop at Saint’s Former Home

A few hundred pilgrims spent the day June 6 in the rural area of Maryland where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton started her ministry and is buried. On a humid but clear sunny day they processed in prayer and song with the Eucharist in the morning on the grounds of the  National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and then through the town of Emmitsburg with stops at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School and St. Joseph’s Parish before returning to shrine.

Once a Soldier for the Army, Priest Is Now a Soldier for the Lord

As Father David Santos peacefully leads the faithful in Springfield, New Jersey, he may not come off like a military man. But the pastor at St. James the Apostle Church has seen the brutality of war first hand, having faced death in Iraq during the height of war. 

Veteran Says Faith Got Him Through D-Day Duties at Normandy

The beaches of Normandy, France, seem a long way from Bethel, Conn., but many of the lessons about life that Joseph P. Vaghi Jr. learned in his home town probably prepared him to take part in the D-Day landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944.