New norms for investigating bishops put to the test

Bishop Michael Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota, appears to be the first Catholic bishop anywhere to be the subject of the kind of canonical investigation called for in Vos estis lux mundi, the motu proprio Pope Francis promulgated in May that requires the

Who was Venerable Henriette Delille?

Venerable Henriette Delille was a freewoman of color born in antebellum New Orleans. The foundress of what became the Sisters of the Holy Family, she and her sisters nursed the sick, cared for the poor and instructed the ignorant, principally slaves. She

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