By Catholic Stewardship Consultants www.CatholicSteward.com Today, St. Francis Solanus is remembered as the “wonderworker of the New World,” and we occupiers of a digital age might feel distanced from this fearless missionary and healer. Yet his story shares details of his humanity. He fostered a talent for music. He learned languages to nurture hospitality. He […]
Abduction
Missionary sister says God told her to remain ‘peacefully patient’ during captivity in Burkina Faso By Peter Finney Jr. OSV News NEW ORLEANS — Around Christmas in 2021, Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, then supervising her congregation’s medical clinic in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, in West Africa, received a text message from her nephew, James Downing, who […]
Ruminations of an international priest
Hawaii has now become a chapter in my personal and priestly life. It has been a wonderful five years singing the Lord’s song in a foreign land. By Father Ramon Danilo (Danny) R. Laeda Special to the Hawaii Catholic Herald On June 30, I ended my almost five years of priestly ministry in the Diocese […]