Butterflies took flight Sept. 23 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School as students, faculty, and staff gathered for the school’s annual tribute to Preston James, a former Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas student who spent his senior year serving at OLPH.
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Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer following a 90-minute surgery on Oct. 13 during which surgeons removed the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung.
As Pope Leo XIV entered the hospital Oct. 13 for surgery, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, longtime secretary to St. John Paul II, offered prayers through the intercession of the Polish pope and Our Lady of Fatima.
Pope Leo XIV was admitted Oct. 13 to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where the Vatican has confirmed that he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule in the afternoon.
The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Oct. 13 before undergoing lung surgery, prompting the cancellation of several public appearances and meetings for the coming week.
Shortly after Pope Leo XIV announced he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule, Catholic bishops, clergy, religious, and other faithful in the U.S. and Canada offered their promise of prayers for his recovery.
On Oct. 4, the Church marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death. One way of celebrating the great saint is to open his tomb and expose his bones for viewing and veneration, as the Franciscans did several months ago.
Streaming through the rose windows of the National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, rays of sunlight fell upon the lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals gathered in the pews below, as they asked the Holy Spirit to illuminate their hearts and minds during a Red Mass on Sept. 26. Among the worshipers was United States Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who that evening was honored with the 2026 St. Thomas More Award.
Forty years after St. John Paul II gathered leaders of the world’s religions in Assisi for a landmark day of prayer for peace, Pope Leo XIV will return to the city Oct. 27 for the closing day of the 2026 interreligious meeting.
A new update from the excavation at Ireland’s former mother and baby home in Tuam is challenging years of widely circulated claims that children’s remains were “dumped” at the site, with investigators reporting that all 109 sets of remains recovered so far show evidence of having been buried in coffins.