Frank Kotnik’s enthusiasm for toy trains began when he received his first Lionel train set as a child in the 1960s. In 2015, while visiting the Railroad Museum of Long Island with his son, Kotnik was impressed by the museum’s boxcar fundraiser featuring commemorative cars for various com...

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Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly and Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore were part of a delegation of Catholic leaders who traveled to Jerusalem, the Palestinian West Bank and Israel from Sept. 2-6, in an expression of solidarity with Catholics and all those suffering from the effects ...

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Growing up in Ukraine today means facing the daily threat of drone attacks, and more than 19,000 children in Russian-occupied areas have been forcibly deported since the war began — an act the United Nations has recognized as a war crime. The statistics paint a grim picture of lost innocence: ...

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Faced with the choice between death and denouncing the Vatican, the United States, and the United Nations, Bishop Patrick J. Byrne was resolute as he answered the North Korean judge: “There remains only one course — that I die.” Captured in Seoul in the summer of 1950, having refus...

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During the blazing summer of 2024, four National Eucharistic Pilgrimage routes set out from opposite ends of the United States, traversing vast swaths of the country. Tens of thousands of Catholics knelt in prayer and adoration as Eucharistic processions passed through cities and towns, often led by...

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