Special Sections - Christian Hope

For a woman who has suffered the loss of a child before birth, the effects can be devastating.

But thanks to the efforts of a local organization, comfort is out there for moms.

Launched in 2003, Heaven Born is a nonprofit project that provides small, handmade fleece pillows to mothers who have suffered an early pregnancy loss. Tucked inside a small pocket on the front of the pillow is a booklet with tips on how to cope with the e...

There’s a special “hug” out there for children who are sick or facing a life-threatening illness.

Thanks to the efforts of a local nonprofit organization, thousands of children here and around the country have received these “hugs” in the form of warm, fleece blankets.

The group was founded in 2001 by Toni Pagano, a member of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Creve Coeur.

The blankets, which ar...

As the famous Dr. Seuss saying goes, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

That’s exactly why a local organization does what it does to provide a sense of dignity to some of God’s littlest ones who have passed from this earthly life.

Garden of Innocents was formed in 2003 as a nonprofit organization that provides dignified burials for unclaimed children and infants in and around the St. Louis m...

Teachers, social workers, counselors, school nurses and others in the community are invited to a suicide-prevention training session Thursday, Nov. 19, at Mary Mother of the Church Parish, 5901 Kerth Road in South County.

The statewide program, which has received grants from Anthem Blue Cross, Wal-Mart, and the Department of Mental Health, is offered at no cost to participants. Materials also are provided at no cost. The training by the...

As part of the 250th anniversary celebration of Ste. Genevieve Parish in Ste. Genevieve, deceased parishioners and loved ones are being remembered on the parish’s Parade of Saints Tree.

Friends and relatives of the deceased were asked to bring an “angel ornament” to church last weekend, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, to be placed on the artificial Christmas-style tree, which will remain up throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons....

Project Rachel’s first weekend retreat for post-abortive women has been called a success, and a plan to implement a group for men affected by abortion is underway.

Described as the Church’s ministry to individuals wounded by an abortion experience, Project Rachel is administered in the archdiocese with the support of the archdiocesan Respect Life Apostolate.

The ministry’s first weekend retreat was held this pas...