His real name is lost in antiquity, but he is known as St. Dismas. He is the patron saint of those condemned to death. Dismas was the “Good Thief” who was crucified on Calvary alongside Jesus, who ...

There are no feast days observed during Holy Week. When March 25 falls during Holy Week, as it does this year, the great feast of the Annunciation is delayed to the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday.

DANNEMORA -- Inmates built the Church of the Good Thief here, embracing the work all the more because this house of God would be dedicated to one of their own. St. Dismas, said Michael Raab, "appeals ...

Sometimes I wonder how many people fall away from the Catholic Church and live apart from God for many years, with the plan to return at the end of their lives. Their plan is to live the way they want ...

FORT STOCKTON- Behind white buildings and barbwire fences, inmates at Lynaugh Prison in Fort Stockton got to experience something different this weekend. "Pray and offer catholic mass with some 42 ...

When Chicago Outfit boss Joseph “Joey the Clown” Lombardo, 90, died the other day in the supermax prison in Colorado of natural causes, I found myself out on Grand Avenue, looking for his clown ...