VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has approved stricter guidelines for determining which saints will be remembered with mandatory feast days throughout the Latin-rite calendar of the Catholic Church. The General Roman Calendar, the universal schedule of holy days and feast days, is so packed that more selectivity is needed, according to new norms and...Read More

“Rise up in splendor. Your light has come.” The words of the prophet Isaiah foretell of the coming of the Messiah. We welcome his coming.Read More

DODGE CITY, Kan. – With his church believed to be destroyed by a powerful tornado and his parishioners “scattered to the four winds,” Father Gregory LeBlanc, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Greensburg, spent part of May 6 visiting the displaced in local shelters. “St. Joseph Church seems to have been one of the structures...Read More

A woman drove up to St. Wenceslaus Church in a minivan Dec. 5 and told Father Peter Lyons, pastor, “I want to get these guns out of my house.”Read More