Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin plans to start celebrating Mass ad orientem in October, he announced in his homily last Sunday (September 4th). “In October, I will start to offer this Mass here at St. Patrick’s, on Sunday morning, when I am here, ad orientem,” he told the...
Did you know a pope issued the world’s first public smoking ban? It was the 16th century, and Europeans had just brought back something very popular from the New World: tobacco. As its use spread around Europe, questions arose about when it was appropriate to use. Apparently, some people...
Mother Teresa was just canonized a saint this last Sunday! Since she only died in 1997, lots of people have been able to mark the occasion by sharing stories of their personal interactions with her. One neat tidbit that stood out was shared on Twitter by Raymond Arroyo, author and...
A young man in Russia was arrested after posting a video on YouTube of himself playing PokémonGO in a church and faces up to five years in jail. In the offending video (warning: bad language), 21-year-old Ruslan Sokolovsky first explains that a person can be fined or go to jail...
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Around 120,000 people attended St. Mother Teresa’s massive canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sept. 4, 2016. “Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy,” Pope Francis said in his homily, connecting the new saint’s life...
