Entonces apareció una nube que los envolvió de la cual salió una voz que dijo: “Este es mi Hijo amado. ¡Escúchenlo!” (cf. Mc 9:7)

The heavens were opened and the voice of the Father thundered: ‘This is my beloved Son, listen to him.’ (cf. Mk 9:7)

I have thought a great deal about and studied the concept of human dignity throughout my lifetime. But I was recently immersed in a situation where the concept of human dignity came face-to-face with reality.

The older I get, the more I crave a practical spirituality—one tied to dirty dishes not pristine libraries, one that recognizes hungry bellies along with hungry hearts.

The Book of Genesis tells us that the Creator God was pleased with his creation and that he entrusted Adam and Eve with a serious responsibility to care for everything that God had made.

After Pope Francis opened a Jubilee Year dedicated to hope in December of 2024, Merci McCoy began her “pilgrimage of hope” in Corpus Christi, Texas. And it continued north through several churches in the U.S., crossed an ocean to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican and other European churches, and landed in late December at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, a jubilee site in the archdiocese where people could receive a plenary indulgence during the Jubilee Year of Hope.

The annual Indiana March for Life and associated events will take place on Jan. 22 in Indianapolis. Youths and pro-life advocates from all five of Indiana’s dioceses will participate in the event, which solemnly commemorates the date in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion across the country.

SELLERSBURG—Two members of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth religious order began their life and ministry at St. John Paul II Parish in Sellersburg at the start of the new year. The community, founded in 2011 in the Archdiocese of Boston, came to the Church in central and southern Indiana with the approval of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson through the mysterious workings of God’s providence during the past three years. (Related story: Mysterious work of providence brings women religious to Sellersburg parish)

SELLERSBURG—Two members of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth religious order began their life and ministry at St. John Paul II Parish in Sellersburg at the start of the new year. The community, founded in 2011 in the Archdiocese of Boston, came to the Church in central and southern Indiana with the approval of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson through the mysterious workings of God’s providence during the past three years. (Related story: Mysterious work of providence brings women religious to Sellersburg parish)

The powerful and violent cannot control, suppress or commodify God's grace, friendship and will to usher in a new dawn, Pope Leo XIV said.

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen will soon be beatified, now that the Vatican has given the green light, the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., announced on Feb. 9. At press time, no date or location for the beatification was given.

An estimated 33 million visitors and pilgrims came to the Vatican to celebrate the Jubilee Year, exceeding early forecasts, officials said at a news conference at the Vatican Jan. 5.

The path to conversion, the door to God's mercy and the call to live in Christian hope all continue beyond the Jubilee Year, said the three cardinals who closed the Holy Doors at three major basilicas in Rome.

Cuando José se despertó, hizo lo que el ángel del Señor le había mandado y recibió a María por esposa. (Mt 1:24)

When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home. (Mt 1:24)