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A quick look at some first day photos and videos across social media plus where St. John Bosco is spreading the word about Catholic education.

After life-altering changes in Kenya, she went on to change lives in Honduras, India and Uganda.

The opened blinds in his family room were a daily signal he was up and about and could receive visitors. One day, that signal never came.

MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — As residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mourned the loss of 31 people in mass shootings Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, the Knights of Columbus honored a teen who died in May trying to save the lives of his classmates during a shooting at his suburban Denver high school.

This man has traveled the country for 20-some years delivering more than 26,000 crosses.

MINNEAPOLIS — Sean Halpain, immediate past state deputy for Knights of Columbus Arizona State Council, was elected to the Supreme Board of Directors for the 2 million-member group. He will serve three years.

(CNA) —St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as St. Edith Stein, converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the course of her work as a philosopher, and later entered the Carmelite Order. She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1942.

Helena was the mother of Constantine, the Roman emperor who in 313 ended the persecution of Christians throughout the empire.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marking the anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, Pope Francis urged nations to recall the need to protect the life and dignity of the victims of war and armed conflict.

A conference featuring three nationally known speakers plus two dynamic local priests promises to equip couples with the tools to renew their marriages.