The Eucharist truly is the gift that shapes our character into his. We pray, as St. Augustine preached, that we will ever more fully become who we receive.

British Catholics have welcomed the appointment of Father Timothy Radcliffe, their country’s best known Dominican preacher, as a cardinal, predicting it will raise their church’s profile at home and abroad.

As the Catholic Church commemorates World Mission Sunday Oct. 20, Divine Word Father Victor Roche, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, said Catholics should not only reflect on the work carried out by priests and men and women religious, but also on their own personal calling to be missionaries in their own country.

As Catholics worldwide prepare to commemorate World Mission Sunday, a missionary priest in the Diocese of Rochester, New York, said his work has given him the opportunity to give back what he received in his youth in Kenya.

How miscarriage affects fathers and how that affects their relationships is an often overlooked aspect of this ministry’s developing landscape, several experts told OSV News.