On Aug. 17, 2002, twenty years ago today, Pope John Paul II entrusted the world to Divine Mercy as he consecrated the International Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki, Poland. Standing before ...

I was an exhibitor at a Catholic trade show in the mid-1990s. It was lunchtime, and most people had already gone to eat when I looked up and, to my amazement, I saw Sister Faustina Kowalska gilding ...

On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis will offer Mass in a church containing the relics of both St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II. This will be the second year that the pope has chosen to ...

A once-obscure nun from 1930s Poland would probably be surprised to find that she is the subject of a play travelling all across the United States in 2014. But popular demand was what ultimately drove ...

Sunday is the Feast of The Divine Mercy, a devotion to the merciful love of God. The devotion arose from apparitions of Jesus seen by St. Faustina Kowalska. (Credit: CNS.) Listen ROME – Sunday is the ...

The Rev. Gus Puleo submitted this column prior to his death on April 3, 2024. He served as director of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and the Spanish Department at St. Charles Borromeo ...

Three years since the death of the Polish pope, Benedict XVI announces the First World Congress on Divine Mercy, something dear to John Paul II, to focus the mission of the Church and achieve peace in ...

ROME — Because Pope Benedict XVI was seen as a man of tradition, it was often easy to miss the innovative aspects of his papacy. In equal-and-opposite fashion, because Pope Francis is seen as a ...