His feast is shared with St. Simon, who was also said to be a cousin of Jesus and is believed to have traveled to Persia with Jude, where they were both martyred. The following prayer can be ...

A Quebec nun has become Canada’s newest saint, more than a century after establishing a religious community that still endures today. Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis was among the 14 saints ...

What do we really know about the power of prayer to help people when they are sick? As a medical intern, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, whose sparkling blue eyes ...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, born Francesco Forgione on ... describing Padre Pio as “a man of prayer and suffering,” and highlighting his role in the Church as a spiritual guide.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) recently directed the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Supreme Court of India to reexamine an application under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) ...

In 1956, beloved Padre Pio of Pietrelcina founded a respected major research medical center now administered by the Vatican. The saint described it as “a place of prayer and science” and “a ...

A celebration of two beloved saints recently served to highlight an initiative to found an authentically Catholic hospital and medical school in the Midwest. Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, Michigan ...