With the Olympics now underway, I finally caught up with this remarkable story of one of the Canadians who carried the torch earlier this month: The Olympic spark has been ignited within the soul of Vancouver seminarian Noel Oco, one of those carrying the Olympic torch through Vancouver prior to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.…

Continuing a quiet trend in this country, another diocese is about to get its first married Catholic priest: Prentice Dean will be ordained as a Catholic priest on Monday — while his wife watches. The former Episcopal priest and father of two will become the first married priest in the Nashville diocese. He resigned from…

That aptly describes the remarkable journey of a young woman named Leah Darrow — who is now traveling the country to tell her story: “For years my faith took a back seat until it all came to a soulful boiling point during a high power photo shoot, where I turned back to God and my…

Last year, the National Catholic Reporter published this little bombshell about the apostolic visitation to American nuns: The vast majority of U.S. women religious are not complying with a Vatican request to answer questions in a document of inquiry that is part of a three-year study of the congregations. Leaders of congregations, instead, are leaving…

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