The original co-founders always maintained that the traditional family gathering be observed yearly on St. Joseph’s Day — a time for Italian families to reflect on their homeland, celebrate their ...

for the annual feast of Saint Anthony, patron saint of local fishing communities. Devotees from both countries sailed on fishing boats to the island for the annual Mass. The Diocese of Jaffna ...

On April 1, 1925, five Sisters established the first Thuiner Franciscan house in the U.S., which is now OSF HealthCare Saint ...

NEW YORK -- If it's March, and it's green, it must be St. Patrick's Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s ...

St Joseph, the husband of Mary ... irreplaceable domestic intangibles and intimacies of family life. As the patron saint of fathers, Joseph’s example heralds the ideal of fatherhood: faithful, ...