STAMFORD, Conn.—On the Friday before Mother's Day, Joseph and Laura Cogoni drove from New York to Sacred Heart Church in Stamford, Conn. Alvino and Alma Guajardo flew in from Texas. They joined the ...

To paraphrase the prophet Isaiah: God's timing isn't always our timing. Take St. Gerard Majella. To be sure, he was known as a “wonder worker” in his 18th-century Italy. But it has been in recent ...