4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1348+ words) Throughout their entire adult lives, the women of the Benedictine Sisters of Mother of God Monastery have served others as educators, health care providers and spiritual leaders. The Catholic nuns, many highly educated, have taught and ministered across the U.S. and…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (537+ words) At a chapel near the site of the accident, some fans knelt in prayer, emotion welling in their eyes. Others sang and danced raucously to her greatest hits. During her life, Gilda was a nationally beloved singer of cumbia, a…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (285+ words) Leo unveiled the portrait before celebrating Mass with his fellow Augustinian brothers at the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano south of Rome. He joins a handful of past popes whose visits to…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (553+ words) Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope can still picture a quiet moment inside the Washington National Cathedral. After President George W. Bush spoke during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Cope recalled, his…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1033+ words) For Kentucky author Wendell Berry, the environmental crisis he lamented to such great effect in his essays, poetry and fiction was also a human crisis — a deeply spiritual one. Berry, who died Monday at home at age 92, drew that connection…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (354+ words) The Procession of Lights was part of a four-day program for the eighth edition of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth in Bucharest. The annual gathering brings together 2,400 people aged 16 to 35, many from Romania and its diaspora and other Orthodox…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (600+ words) Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another Republican as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (753+ words) “It is centered around the worship of Da Shi Ye, also known as the Guardian God of Ghosts, and has become one of the major traditional Chinese religious celebrations in Bukit Mertajam,” said Lee Kim Fong, general affairs coordinator for…...