A few weeks ago, controversy erupted over a claim that Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich had instructed a priest in that archdiocese to cease and desist from publicly reciting the “Prayer to St. Michael ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is seen at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. In response to the church's abuse crisis, some pastors have asked their parishioners to say the prayer to ...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, this week responded to a letter in the Wall Street Journal from a priest objecting to the praying of the St. Michael prayer at the end of Mass, ...

If ever there was a time for Catholics to call on a saint whose charge is to “defend us in battle,” it is now. Bishops in more than a dozen dioceses are doing just that by asking that the prayer to St ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is displayed at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. (CNS Photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) St. Michael the Archangel is back, invoked to defend Christians from ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is seen at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. (Credit: CNS Photo/Gregory A. Shemitz.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to the Church abuse crisis, ...

"Saint Michael and the Dragon," a Spanish (Valencian) painting, tempera on wood, gold ground, c. 1405. (Met Museum) WASHINGTON (CNS) — In response to the church abuse crisis, many parishes around the ...