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Did angels really carry the Holy House of Mary to Loreto, Italy?
What do Galileo, Mozart, Descartes, Cervantes, and St. Therese of Lisieux have in common? They all traveled hundreds of miles to step inside the Virgin Mary’s house, which is preserved inside a basilica in the small Italian town of...
On Dec. 8, the Church celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception (it’s a Holy Day of Obligation, so make sure you get to Mass)! There are three common misconceptions about this feast day in...
I love this time of year more than any other. I look forward to this particular stretch for months, such that when it does finally arrive most years, I’ve perhaps overplayed my enthusiastic hand...
In September, we invited world-renowned painter Igor Babailov—the artist behind official paintings of Pope Benedict XVI and several world leaders—to the Busch School of Business to teach our...
Sisters of St. Joseph will not defend embezzling LA sisters
The two religious sisters accused of embezzling from a California Catholic school face a criminal investigation, and will not be defended by their religious community.
“The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has filed a criminal complaint with the...
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Empress of the Americas
It would be virtually impossible to travel to Mexico without seeing the colorful, star-cloaked, evil-crushing image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on street corners, in private homes, on restaurant walls, and certainly in church chapels.
Four...
Iran, China detain hundreds of Christians
While religious leaders marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this week by saying that more should be done to preserve human rights, both Iran and China detained upwards of 100 Christians.
The United Nations...
Number of Americans who say they are witches is on the rise
The number of Americans who claim to be witches has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.
An estimated 1 to 1.5 million people say they practice Wicca or paganism, a rise from an estimated 8,000 Wiccans in 1990, and 340,000 in...
Cobblestones honoring Holocaust victims stolen in Rome
Twenty bronze-capped cobblestones, commemorating members of two Italian Jewish families who were deported during the Holocaust, were stolen in Rome in the early hours of Monday morning.
The memorials were set into the street in front of the...
Indian sister: Rape claims against bishop went unheard by Church leaders
The religious sister who says she was serially raped by an Indian bishop claims she made a police report only after written complaints to Church authorities went unheeded.
“I was scrambling for support and initially I found almost none,” the...
