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February 14, 2024
Pope’s Ash Wednesday address: Remove social media ‘mask’ and ‘enter into the secret’ with God
February 14, 2024
ROME – Pope Francis told Catholics to carve out a silent space for God amid the buzz of the digital era in which little remains private as he opened the Lenten season with a procession and Mass on Ash Wednesday. In his homily, the Pope focused on the emphasis that the day’s scripture readings place
Female diaconate possible according to theologian nun advising Pope
February 14, 2024
ROME – A Spanish nun who has participated in recent meetings of Pope Francis’s top advisory body has said that while women’s priestly ordination is currently off the table, the pontiff is supportive of having a female diaconate. Speaking to the news agency Europa Press, Spanish nun and theologian Linda Pocher said that while “there
A Valentine’s Day reflection on Terni: the Italian home of Saint Valentine
February 14, 2024
The Catholic Herald knows all about where Saint Valentine comes from. His hometown of Terni, about 60 kilometres north of Rome, is where we started our Via di Francesco Camino pilgrimage to Assisi during October 2023. This Valentine’s Day, though, I am not sure many couples will be romancing there. As Herald editor William Cash notes: “on
Can the Sacrament of Reconciliation even extend to Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz? 
February 14, 2024
The key theme this Ash Wednesday is that ashes symbolise death and penitence. Recent events in Israel have reminded us of the continual plight of the Jewish people. The ashes of the Holocaust emphasise wrongful death on a scale that is all but unimaginable and incomprehensible. Just as incomprehensible is whether within those terrible ashes
Finding hope in the desert: getting lost and discovering the way
February 14, 2024
The desert experience of the people of Israel was a difficult time of testing and penance, of getting lost and discovering the way, as the Lord sought to mould them into His covenant people. Yet the later prophets looked back on it as the honeymoon period in the people’s relationship with the Lord. The most
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