The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Donald Joseph Johnston Sr., age 76, of St. Ignace, Michigan, died on May 3, 2025. He was born on November 21, 1948, in Carp River, Michigan, to Elmer and Madeline (Wisner) Johnston. Don grew up in ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include St. Ignatius of Loyola being wounded in battle, John Wesley’s ...

Both president and pope represent two antipodal possibilities of leadership in the same society and the promise of redemption once a society gets it right. Consequently, no human society, nation or ...

A week after the white smoke signaled the election of the new pope, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle reunited with Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, in a private audience at the Vatican.

Francis, who was born in Argentina and died April 21 ... The Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, is a religious order known for its emphasis on education, spirituality ...

He had previously set up the St. Mary’s Mission in Stevensville. De Smet named the mission after Ignatius of Loyola, who was one of the founders of the Jesuits. He was born in the 15th century ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at the Vatican but at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where before and ...

Born on Dec. 17, 1936 ... is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Jesuits adhere to Ignatian spirituality as laid out a document called the Spiritual Exercises ...

They were founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, and it is that name that we bare," Frain said. "Since 1600, we were always told we would never have any (Jesuits) become a pope. It really stunned me when ...

Since his death, several great-grandchildren have been born, and our family moves ... From the spiritual vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola, our founder, he would “find God in all things, and ...