This is an old Mohawk blessing. Pronounced She:kon (Say go) Skennon ko:wa (Skennin go wah), it means Hello, Great Peace be with you! I could almost hear Saint Kateri Tekakwitha saying those words to ...

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will be the first Native American saint when she is canonized by Pope Benedict XVI this year. As Kateri Tekakwitha lay on her deathbed, adorned in her finest clothing in ...

On July 14, the Church celebrates the feast day of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be beatified. Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri lived a life of holiness and virtue, ...

St. Kateri Tekakwitha teaches us to live an ordinary holiness and to confront the suffering of life with patience, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. At his weekly public audience Aug. 30, the pope spoke ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1805, in one of history's greatest naval battles, the British fleet under Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated the combined French-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar off ...

VATICAN CITY — Some 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other traditional garb flooded St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints onto the roster ...

An American Indian woman who grew up in the Mohawk Valley and faced ridicule for converting to Christianity will become America's first indigenous saint. Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree Monday ...

Thirty-two years after her mother traveled to the Vatican for the beatification of a Native American Catholic woman who had died 300 years before that, Anna Jarvis will travel to Rome with her ...

During an elaborate open-air ceremony at the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square this morning that involved a lot of fancy costumes, bejeweled bibles, Latin liturgies, and probably some bored, sleep-weary ...

The Northern Ontario leg of the relic tour began on Jan. 15 at the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre and continues north through ...

Johnnie Jimenez holds sage during a Native American "Four Directions" prayer before a Feb. 26 Mass at the Kateri Center in Chicago to celebrate the upcoming canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.