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The Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, a joint venture between the state’s largest healthcare provider and New Orleans’ historically Black Catholic university, has the green light to begin recruiting its first class of future doctors as the medical school prepares to open next year.
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By Courtney Mares | OSV News
ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer following a 90-minute surgery on Oct. 13 during which surgeons removed the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung.
Dr. Stefano Margaritora, chief thoracic surgeon at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, led a medical team in the video-assisted technique operation. In a joint statement with Dr. Luigi Carbone released at just before 10 p.m., the doctors said that the “examination confirmed the diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, as suspected by the preoperative tests.”
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By Devin Watkins | Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV announced on Sunday that he has decided to undergo surgery at his doctors’ request to remove a “small, localized nodule in my lung,” which was detected at a “very early stage.”
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By Joyce Ogirri | WISN ABC News
At first glance, part of St. Louis Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, may look like an empty field. But beneath the grass are the final resting places of many Black Catholics whose graves have gone unmarked for generations.
“This is some way that we can restore dignity to people and restore dignity to families,” said Michele Abee Biskis, assistant professor of environmental studies at Bellarmine University.
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This final presentation in the series on the Saintly Seven, from the Catholic Social Action Office, looks at the life of Servant of God, Friar Martin de Porres Ward, O.F.M. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 20, 1918, into the bi-racial family of William Henry Ward and Clara Iorby, who named him Matthias DeWitte Ward and later moved their family to Washington, D.C.
His family were Methodists, however, Matthias attended Holy Mass with a friend for the first time at age 17 and was touched by grace, which began his conversion to Catholicism. From 1935-1939, he attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., and he was baptized into Catholicism at St. Augustine Church in 1936.