INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) — In a rousing, often laugh-inducing address, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle implored the more than 300 attendees of the Asian and Pacific Islander Catholics National Encounter in Indianapolis to remain committed as witnesses to the truth of Jesus Christ.
INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) — Absolute silence filled Lucas Oil Stadium as tens of thousands of people dropped to their knees to adore Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament as the long-anticipated National Eucharistic Congress officially got underway on the evening of July 17 in Indianapolis.
(OSV News) — Catholics who will not be among the more than 40,000 people attending the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis July 17-21 will be able to watch or listen to key portions of the event, including the evening revival sessions with popular Catholic speakers and musicians, including Bishop Robert E. Barron, Father Mike Schmitz and Matt Maher.
(OSV News) — Since beginning their journeys mid-May, pilgrims on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have braved excessive heat, thunderstorms and wind — all of it closely monitored by a meteorologist in New Hampshire.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first “millennial” to become a saint.
(OSV News) — A Manila-born cardinal will be the special guest at a gathering of Asian and Pacific Islander Catholics in July, ahead of his participation in the National Eucharistic Congress.
(OSV News) — Clergy and experts in the U.S. are applauding newly issued norms from the Vatican on assessing the miraculous, the mundane and the flat-out maleficent among spiritual experiences.
LAKE ITASCA, Minn. (OSV News) — An unassuming stream — just 18 feet across — pours forth from Lake Itasca, forming the start of the Mississippi River’s winding flow down 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. At this very point among the Northern Minnesota pines, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens held high a golden monstrance on the afternoon of May 19, tracing the sign of the cross over the waters and the people gathered — a humble gesture pleading for a mighty river of grace to flow for the National Eucharistic Revival.
(OSV News) — In the morning of Pentecost at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Brownsville, Texas, a large group of Catholics gathered to participate in a solemn Mass that launched the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Juan Diego Route.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) — April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski’s worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex machine will help him plant his 1,700 acres more precisely and with less seed and fertilizer, if it works.