Alumni and former teachers and administrators of St. Kateri School in Irondequoit celebrated the school with a Mass and ...

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her remote ...

There are several female Catholic saints from North America. They include St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk-Algonquin woman canonized in 2012.

The Rev. Aro Varnabas came from his parish, Saint Kateri, to celebrate this service. “Making people feel connected to God through the things they’re familiar with, that’s what I see,” he said.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — On St. John the Baptist’s feast day in late June, an extended Tohono O’odham family attends Mass out at their desert camp, where they gather to harvest saguaro fruit in ...

The Rev. Aro Varnabas came from his parish, Saint Kateri, to celebrate this service. “Making people feel connected to God through the things they’re familiar with, that’s what I see,” he said.

On St. John the Baptist’s feast day in late June, an extended Tohono O’odham family attends Mass out at their desert camp where they gather to harvest saguaro fruit in a process sacred in ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression. But many Tohono O’odham families hold onto both faith traditions in the ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America.