400 young people get baptized at Winterfest

Many hands from a crowd are seen thrust up to the sky at dusk.

Around 400 young people opted for baptism at this year’s Winterfest event in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The organizer of the festival commented that in his 36 years of Winterfest experience, he had never witnessed such a …

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Vienna church offers free Christian-themed tattoos

This black and white image shows the hands of a tattoo artist holding a tattoo gun and applying a tattoo to a customer's forearm.

A walk-in Christian tattoo campaign is organized by a Catholic group in Vienna which will offer Christian-themed tattoos for free. The campaign aims to alter the Church’s “prohibiting and rejecting” perspective of the body. The …

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Aquinas chapel completes transformation

A richly painted icon is shown of Mary holding baby Jesus.

Joseph Pronechen of the National Catholic Register writes about the recent work done on Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College Northfield, Massachusetts. It is one of the few New England examples …

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