WHEATON, Ill. (CNS) -- A typed copy of a Scripture passage is taped to the front door of Tom Hogueisson's apartment in a housing complex supported by Wheaton Franciscan Services and designated for people with AIDS.Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. – For the past 36 years, Larry Bucci has traveled about 40 miles to Malvern, Pa., on the last weekend in April to participate in the Archbishop FitzMaurice men’s retreat at Malvern Retreat House, also known as St. Joseph’s-in-the-Hills.Read More

HONG KONG – The only Catholic church in Ordos, in China’s autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, was destroyed the night of June 7, and the priest and lay leader were detained by police.Read More

St. Walburga, virgin, was born in England around 710. St. Walburga became a nun and went to Germany to help St. Boniface with his missionary work in 748. She later became abbess of the double monastery, where she remained superior of both men and women until her death in 779. She is the patron saint...Read More

St. John of Parma was a Franciscan priest born in 1209 in Italy. He taught theology in Bologna and Naples, Italy. He became the Franciscans’ seventh minister general in 1247, and he traveled to the Franciscan provinces of various countries. St. John of Parma also served as papal legate to Constantinople. He is patron saint...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named nine church leaders to begin an apostolic visitation of the Catholic Church in Ireland aimed at helping the church address the sexual abuse scandal, improve assistance to victims and perfect preventative measures.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The scandal of clerical abuse of minors must inspire bishops and priests to rediscover the need for penitence, purification, forgiveness and justice, Pope Benedict XVI told Italian bishops.Read More

St. John Baptist Rossi was born in the diocese of Genoa, Italy, in 1698. He studied under the Jesuits and the Dominicans and was ordained in March 1721. He helped begin a hospice for homeless women in Rome. Additionally, he was a catechist to farmers, the homeless, the sick, beggars, prisoners and many others. Although...Read More