By Fr. Don Miller, OFM, Franciscan Media Blessed Emmanuel Ruiz and Companions’ Story Not much is known of the early life of Emmanuel Ruiz, but details of his […]
By Msgr. Charles Pope, National Catholic Register - The cassock was once the most common form of clerical attire in the parish setting, but beginning in the late 1960s it was almost universally abandoned. Today, however, younger clergy have to some extent rediscovered it.
By Chris Weller, Business Insider - After years of consistent decline, new data reveal the US fertility rate has hit a record low, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Provisional 2016 data showed a 1% decline from the year prior. That brings the general fertility rate among women 15 to 44 to 62.0 births per 1,000 women.