The Dorothy Day Reading List Challenge – Part 2

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Allyson Kenny

Allyson Kenny continues her Dorothy Day Reading List Challenge with 31 books read by Day in the 1940s. How many have you read?

Vatican Promotes the Cause of American Brother William Gagnon

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Salt + Light Media

This morning the Vatican promoted the cause of American Hospitaller Brother William Gagnon, who died ministering in Vietnam during war: The heroic virtue of the Servant of God William Gagnon, professed Religious of the Hospitaller Order of St John; born in Dover, USA, 16 May 1905 and died in Hô Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), […]

CNS: Pope advances sainthood causes, including Canadian brother

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Salt + Light Media

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood causes of 35 candidates, including Canadian Christian Brother Adolphe Chatillon. During a meeting April 2 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope signed a decree recognizing that Brother Chatillon lived the Christian virtues […]

Buffalo NY area priest named Venerable in saint decrees

Friday, January 14, 2011

Matthew Harrison

In February 2009 my wife and I drove my colleague, Kris Dmytrenko, to the Buffalo, New York airport. He was flying to Rome for work, and giving him a ride to the airport gave us the opportunity to visit a few shrines in the upstate New York area. One of the shrines we visited was […]