St. Alphonsus-St. Clement Parish

Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the ...

In the account of St Amatus of Remiremont it is related how he brought about the conversion to God of a Merovingian nobleman named Romaric, who ...

Foundress of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy. She was born at Albisola Marina, Liguria, Italy, in 1811, and was baptized Benedetta. At sixteen she ...

“Constantly the Diocese of Rochester calls for greater caution, but it is hard not to think that they simply act to sabotage the Cause,” said Msgr. James Kruse, the Diocese of Peoria’s director of canonical affairs and former vicar general, as he discussed conversations he has had with Rochester diocesan officials in recent months. On December 3, the Diocese of Peoria announced that the Vatican was postponing Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification.

Following a custom that dates back several decades, Pope Francis left the Vatican on December 8 and traveled to the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, where he offered an act of veneration to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Column of the Immaculate Conception (video).

In his December 8 Sunday Angelus address (video), Pope Francis reflected on the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38), the Gospel reading of Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.