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Sister best known for ministry to migrants shares her artwork that tells their stories
CHICAGO (OSV News) – A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork nationally for the first time and reiterate a message of love.
Artist Daniel Mitsui: A portfolio that balances tradition with innovation
Daniel Mitsui likes drawing on calfskin vellum the best.
As House reveals China’s fentanyl role, Catholic experts say US has just one path out of the crisis
(OSV News) — Catholics working to address the nation’s fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China — and blaming its government — as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising rates of addiction ultimately demands divine assistance.
April 8, 2024: Solemnity and totality
The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord in 2024 is observed Monday, April 8.
Was there a total solar eclipse when Jesus died?
In Luke 23:44-45 of the New American Bible Revised Edition — the Bible translation heard at U.S. Catholic Masses — the verses explicitly refer to a solar eclipse preceding Jesus’ death: “It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun.”
‘Awe-inspiring’ total solar eclipse offers chance ‘to reflect on God’s grandeur’
(OSV News) — Have you got your glasses?
YOUTH 2000 celebrates 27th year in Owensboro
The 27th annual YOUTH 2000 drew more than 500 participants (400 of them youth) for the March 15-17, 2024 retreat, which was held at Brescia University in Owensboro.
Sisters helping My Sister’s Keeper
As part of Catholic Sisters Week, several Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph and Ursuline Associates spent March 11 and 12 making blankets to donate to an Owensboro emergency shelter for women and children.
Quilting Friends return to help support Ursuline Sisters
From March 10-13, the Quilting Friends returned to Maple Mount. They are a group of women who either bring quilt tops they are working on, or they use the ample amount of donated fabric on hand to make new quilt tops.
Christopher French, diocesan seminarian, instituted into Ministry of Lector
On March 17, 2024, during the closing Mass for the YOUTH 2000 retreat at Brescia University in Owensboro, Bishop William F. Medley instituted seminarian Christopher French into the Ministry of Lector.
