On Oct. 28, the Western church celebrates the feast day of one of the more obscure and lesser-known apostles: St. Simon. The name Simon comes from the Hebrew “Shimon,” which essentially means “the one ...

As we’ve noted before, some Apostles — like Peter, James and John — get major New Testament press. Some — like Andrew — are held up for “best supporting Apostle.” Some — like Bartholomew and Matthew — ...

The Apostle Simon Peter and the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin were men separated by thousands of years of history. Yet both experienced a life-changing traumatic event in their lives. How ...

It is not every day that my home parish reaches its maximum seating capacity of almost 1,200 people for a weekday Mass. But that was exactly what happened on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, when the relics of ...