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All Saints Day [at Maria Stein Shrine] will be big this year.

While the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics may not have relics from every saint, its celebration of All Saints Day will be big this year. Already having one of the largest relic collections in the United States, from over 850 saints, they are expanding this historic collection with …
Saints of the Eucharist: Saint John Paul II

Papal Cross Stencil Template Born May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, Karol “Lolek” Józef Wojtyla was familiar with hardship from a young age. He lost all of his family members by the time he was 21, and World War II began soon after. He worked in a factory by day …
The Gift of Moral Law

Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). In the second major part of TOB, Pope St. John Paul II guides us in exploring the implications of our redemption in Christ and the moral teaching of the New …
Values Guide Students

Mercy McAuley High School aims to instill key core values in its students, and evidence indicates it is succeeding. During Lent, the school’s campus ministry sponsored a contest among homerooms to collect the most layettes (a bag of necessities for newborn babies) to donate to Pregnancy Center West. The students …
Bellarmine Chapel, Xavier University

St. Robert Bellarmine at Xavier University is both a parish and a university chapel. As late as the 1940s, students (then all men) were not permitted at parish Masses, but attended student Masses as part of their Jesuit formation and education. 1831 The Athenaeum (men’s high school and college) in downtown …