For more than 40 years, the Friends of Chimbote Mission based out of Fargo has been providing much needed assistance to the faithful who live in poverty on the streets of Chimbote, Peru. This year, Bishop Folda made his first international mission trip to Peru to see the mission first hand.

Less than half of all children today grow up in households with consistently married parents. While this circumstance is cause of great concern, it is not a cause for despair. There is great hope for those who have come from a divorced or separated home in this month’s book, Life-Giving Wounds: A Catholic Guide to Healing for Adult Children of Divorce and Separation.

The good, no, the glorious news first: the baby “saved” from abortion during our area’s fall 40 Days for Life campaign, recounted in my February “Sidewalk Stories,” is here! Click now to read more.

The Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls is built on top of the burial site of St. Paul in Rome. For Christians, it is an essential stop on the pilgrimage route in Rome. The city of Rome considers both St. Peter and St. Paul as their patrons. Tradition asserts that they were both martyred on the same day.