SPRINGFIELD-- Matthew M. Weber has been dubbed "The Andy Rooney of CatholicTV." The 28-year-old Cathedral High School graduate provides a two-minute humorous reflection as the final segment on ...

Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds of Jesus in his own body. He bore the wounds until his ...

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1420) by Gentile da Fabriano (Wikimedia Commons) (OSV News) — Throughout 2024, Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Padre Pio (1887-1968), an Italian priest and stigmatic, was elevated to sainthood in 2002 as St. Pio of Pietrelcino. In the 1940s he heard the confession of the future Pope John Paul II and–John Paul ...

Claims that a young woman developed Christ-like wounds after playing Jesus in a play have sharply divided opinion in Samoa, igniting debate over whether the bleeding cuts to her body are miraculous or ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that ...