The fourth graders at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School dressed in saintly attire as they celebrated All Saints Day with a special school-wide liturgy on Nov. 1.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, Zone 4 of the Gulf Coast District of the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. hosted a beautiful Mass of Remembrance for Deceased Knights and Ladies and Founders Day Celebration at Holy Family Catholic Church in Ensley.

Fernando Cardinal Filoni, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre recently announced the appointment of Joseph A. Marino as Lieutenant of the Southeastern Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

The St. Elizabeth Ann Seton-Gardendale/St. Henry-Warrior Middle and High School Youth Groups prepared care packages for our diocesan seminarians at a recent gathering.

A team of Our Lady of Sorrows (OLS) volunteers spent Halloween morning adding treats to lunches they prepared for the food insecure.

St. John Paul II Catholic High School held its 25th Anniversary Family Festival, kicking off its 25th Anniversary Year for Silver Celebration.

OLS families with young children and other parishioners turned out for the first parish-wide Fall Festival organized and hosted by the OLS Youth Ministry.

Catholic Engaged Encounter (CEE) of Birmingham had their leadership discernment retreat on Oct. 23.

Our Lady of Sorrows’ (OLS) parishioners are helping the Catholic Center of Concern by filling several hundred brown paper grocery bags with donated groceries.

In October, Father Wyman Vintson, Vicar for Vocations, led a group of men from the Diocese of Birmingham to the Pontifical College Josephinum for a Come and See Seminary Live-In Weekend.

I wasn’t prepared for the sudden finality of death.

We will now look at how to “shop smart” as a Catholic therapy consumer.

St. Stephen was the first Christian martyr, and one of the seven first deacons of the Church.

Food is mentioned more than 1,200 times in sacred Scripture.

The consequential adventure of marriage and family life offers a fulfilling pathway toward human flourishing.

We celebrate the sacrament of baptism for every condition of the human person imaginable.

The diocesan Year of the Parish and the Eucharist was the primary focus of the Behold, I Make All Things New conference, which took place Aug. 13–14.

I just graduated and got this great job, but I’m in a new city and it’s almost impossible to meet people.

Beauty, no doubt, like God, is all around us, and nature is a ubiquitous source of beauty easily attributed to God.

“When we take the time to really look, there is much to see. God has gifted us with many visual wonders.”

Dodge a negative experience with prayer and support.

Everything about us, every aspect of ourselves has been designed to serve and glorify God.

The priest is called to witness to mystery, to proclaim the Word, and to celebrate Eucharist.

The desire to hear and tell family stories arises from our deepest needs to know who we are.

A peek at some of the prominent figures and events in the New Testament.