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Understanding the liturgy can be transformative, Cardinal Parolin says
August 27, 2019
A better understanding of the meaning and symbolic language of the Church’s liturgy, especially the Mass, will help Catholics encounter the Lord and grow in holiness, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a letter this week. “Concretely, it is a matter of helping communities to better internalize the prayer of the Church, to love it as
Pope Francis: Mary helps Christians enter heaven through the ‘narrow gate’
August 26, 2019
The way to heaven is difficult and the gate to enter small, but Jesus’ mother, Mary, who herself entered through the narrow gate, will help those who ask, Pope Francis said Sunday. Mary can be invoked under the title “Gate of Heaven,” he explained in his Angelus address on August 25. “She welcomed [Jesus] with
Why the Feast of St Dominic is not actually the Dominicans’ biggest feast day
August 08, 2019
Thursday marks the Feast Day of St. Dominic, the 13th century priest known for founding the Order of Preachers, commonly called the Dominicans, and for spreading devotion to the Rosary. Surprisingly, though, the Dominicans don’t usually do much to celebrate the saint’s August 8 feast day. While the August feast “is for us certainly always
True wealth is found in Jesus Christ, not money, Pope Francis says
August 08, 2019
Pope Francis Wednesday criticized those who give more consideration to money than the sacraments or helping others find true wealth – a relationship with Jesus Christ. “How many times do I think of this when I see some parishes where it is thought that money is more important than the sacraments! Please! A poor Church:
Iraqi patriarch to Pope Francis: Chaldean Church is ‘a church of martyrs’
August 07, 2019
The Chaldean Catholic Church is a Church of martyrs, Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako of Babylon told Pope Francis this week. “Our Chaldean church, since the early centuries, was a missionary church which announced the gospel reaching as far as China, and gave so many martyrs and continues to give today,” Sako wrote in a letter
Pope Francis prays for victims of shootings in US
August 05, 2019
Pope Francis on Sunday remembered the victims, and the families of the victims, of recent shootings in Texas, California, and Ohio, asking for prayers. “I am spiritually close to the victims of the episodes of violence that these days have bloodied Texas, California and Ohio, in the United States, affecting defenseless people,” the pope said
Pope Francis surprises ill religious sister with visit
August 01, 2019
Pope Francis took advantage of his lighter summer schedule to make a surprise visit to a convalescing Daughter of Charity earlier this week. Sr. Maria Mucci, 74, has spent her entire religious life serving guests and Pope Francis in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. Since undergoing a surgery in October, she has been recovering in
Polish priest attacked in sacristy during apparent robbery
July 30, 2019
A Catholic priest was severely beaten in an attack by three men in the sacristy of St. John the Baptist church in Szczecin on Sunday, in what was reportedly an attempted robbery. Fr. Aleksander Ziejewski, 68, was attacked July 28 shortly before the 6 pm Mass. He had responded to a call for help from
Vatican: Remains of missing teen not found among bones
July 29, 2019
The Vatican reported Sunday that bones discovered in previously hidden ossuaries pre-date the 20th century – and therefore cannot be the remains of a Vatican teen who went missing in the 1980s. Hundreds of partially intact bones and thousands of bone fragments were studied by a forensic anthropologist and found to all date from before
The Lebanese saint who unites Christians and Muslims
July 24, 2019
St. Charbel Makhlouf is known in Lebanon for the miraculous healings of those who visit his tomb to seek his intercession – both Christians and Muslims. “St. Charbel has no geographic or confessional limits. Nothing is impossible for [his intercession] and when people ask [for something], he answers,” Fr. Louis Matar, coordinator of the Shrine
The hunt for the remains of the first Filipino-born bishop
July 22, 2019
A little over 100 years ago, the Catholic Church’s first Filipino-born bishop died while on a visit to Rome. Now, a group of Filipino priests are on the hunt for his remains. The search for Bishop Jorge Imperial Barlin’s bones began several years ago. Written records show he was buried in the Dominican mausoleum at
Pope Francis tells Assad: ‘Stop this humanitarian catastrophe’
July 22, 2019
Pope Francis, with concern for the humanitarian crisis in bombarded Idlib, has called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to safeguard the weak and defenseless civil population in his country. “The Holy Father asks the president to do everything possible to stop this humanitarian catastrophe, to safeguard the defenseless population, especially the weakest, in compliance with
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