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 ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...