New & Noteworthy
Marian Apostolate Relic Tour Concludes
Hundreds gathered on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at The Shrine of St Anthony in Ellicott City, Md., for the concluding Mass of the Marian Apostolate Relic Tour. Friar Jobe Abbass, OFM Conv., spoke to an overflowing crowd about the lives ...
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine hosts Liberty Day and the pole-raising reenactment
On May 17, 2025, the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine in Fonda, N.Y., a ministry of Our Lady of the Angels Province, partnered with Montgomery County History & Archives and County Tourism for a special commemoration. In May 1775, 250 ...
+ Frair Stanley Sobiech, OFM Conv., laid to rest in Poland
Friars, family, and friends gathered in Kuczbork, Poland on May 31, 2025, for the Requiem and burial of + Friar Stanley Sobiech, OFM Conv., who died on Dec. 10, 2024, in Enfield, Conn., at the age of 91. “His home village ...
Charity leaders serving Central New York's poorest urge GOP Senators to put children and seniors ahead of Trump's bill
Food insecurity in Central New York could get a lot worse. Currently Feeding America reports one in seven people in the region are food insecure. At a news conference outside Catholic Charities Oswego Food Pantry in Fulton Tuesday, Democratic US ...
Two friars make solemn professions
In a Mass prayed, preached, and sung in Dutch, Spanish, Latin, and English, Friar Edgar Varela, OFM Conv., and Friar Sebastian DeBacker, OFM Conv., made their Solemn Vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience before Our Lady of the Angels Province ...
