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by bcadmin | Dec 16, 2021 | Between Ritual and Myth, News, Pope Joan, Sedia stercoraria, St. John Lateran, U.S. & World News, Urbi | 0 |
Intelligent, in love, highly cultured and heavily pregnant, the infamous “Pope Joan” is one of those urban legends of the “urbi” of Rome about a woman who covertly climbed the clerical ladder in the ninth century and was elected Pope John VIII.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Baptistery, Featured, Mosaicists, Mosaics, News, Sistine Chapel, St. John Lateran, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Even though the baptisms the pope celebrates most years in the Sistine Chapel are better known, the most important place to be baptized in Rome for the past nearly 1,600 years has been the baptistery of St. John Lateran.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2020 | Angelo De Donatis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Diocese of Rome, News, Pope Francis, St. John Lateran, Vatican | 0 |
Confronting and not giving in to bitterness helps priests realize that they are not all-powerful beings but sinners who have been forgiven and called by God, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2020 | ad limina, Bishop Peter J. Jugis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, St. John Lateran, US bishops, Vatican | 0 |
Just as Christ spent his ministry healing and comforting the sick and the needy, bishops also must be a sign of charity in their dioceses, said Bishop Peter J. Jugis of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | ad limina, Bishop Andrew E. Bellisario, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, St. John Lateran, Vatican | 0 |
Bishops must follow the path set by Christ and place service above the prominence of their positions, said Bishop Andrew E. Bellisario of Juneau, Alaska.
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