Indeed, Blessed Stanley Rother served as a shepherd to his last moment on earth. As he wrote and said more than once, “At the first sign of danger, the shepherd can’t just leave and leave the sheep to ...

Don Wolf, rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine and a cousin of Blessed Rother, shared these words in a documentary "American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story." This scene still makes Archbishop ...

A new documentary explores the life and death of Blessed Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma priest killed in Guatemala.

Bodycam shows Woonsocket police capture suspect accused of killing pregnant girlfriend Bodycam footage released by Woonsocket police shows how officers arrested a man accused of killing his pregnant ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — When the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III recently visited Capitol Hill with other members of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, he did so as a Texas pastor as well as a ...

The 110th Feast of the Blessed Sacrament will run from July 30 to Aug. 2 in New Bedford. New safety measures include a cashless payment system and an under-21 entry restriction after 8 p.m.

One of the best inventions of the last 30 years has got to be text messaging. Ever since somebody texted “Merry Christmas” to somebody else in 1992 (Look it up…it’s a real thing), we’ve been sending ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV opened his summit of cardinals at the Vatican on Friday (June 26) by appealing to unity within the church, which he said is called to build a “civilization of love” ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said war is “never blessed by God” as he opened a meeting of the world’s cardinals on Friday by insisting the Catholic Church has a prophetic message of peace for a ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with cardinals in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on June 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME — Pope Leo XIV said war is “never blessed by God” as he opened a ...