Pope Francis: ‘It is Christ, With His Grace, Who Makes Us Just’
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Being entirely objective, the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is the best building in the world! We ask Duncan Stroik, the founder of the Sacred Architecture Journal, to explain why this is, and why churches, and other buildings today, don’t match it.
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Read MorePope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Sept. 29, 2021. / Pablo Esparza/CNA.
Vatican City, Sep 29, 2021 / 04:20 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Wednesday underlined that “we do not become just through our own effort,” for “i…
Continuing his weekly Wednesday general audience series on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, Pope Francis spoke on September 29 about the life of faith.
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In the 1970s, during the heyday of the chaos that followed Vatican II, a French bishop, when asked why he did not more firmly address the crisis, replied, “What can I say? I wasn’t chosen because they thought they might find a prophet in me, but just an administrator.” The Church has always struggled to […]
Following an investigation into how he has handled abuse allegations, Pope Francis has granted Cardinal Rainer Mari Woelki of Cologne a leave of absence and has allowed him to remain in office. The investigation found failures in communication, but no…
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Read MoreAuxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, made his remarks during a homily for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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Read More“The great ship of yesterday’s traditional Christianity is sinking to the bottom, and we should not waste time pushing the deck chairs back and forth on the Titanic,” said Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of German bish…
Read MoreThe African nation’s lockdown “measures were unfair because they closed churches, even when we took precautions such as social distancing, reduced capacity, increased the number of Masses, while restaurants, schools, etc., remained open,&rd…
Read MoreCardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia, 79, has been president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2017.
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Filipino Catholics in the Washington area made a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate a 500-year journey of faith that continues.
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Ninety-six priests, brothers, sisters and laypeople on five continents now have the chance to study in Rome as part of The Papal Foundation’s St. John Paul II Scholarship Program.
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New York’s new governor, Kathy Hochul, recently sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, calling on him to censor pro-life content on his social media platform because of the Heartbeat Bill in Texas. Her letter was framed in the context of Facebook’s trailblazing manner of quashing misinformation over the course of […]
Jesus’ mission will require rejection and suffering on the cross, because ours is not a powerful Messiah in the world’s sense but a crucified servant who emptied himself for others
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Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington urged people to take up Pope Francis’s invitation to “move from indifference to solidarity” to be better understand the plight of migrant people and refugees around the world.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Death penalty, Death row, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican |
Dale Recinella has been serving as a Catholic correctional chaplain for inmates on death row and in solitary confinement on behalf of the Catholic bishops of Florida for decades.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Bishop Carl Kemme, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Wichita, Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, Kansas, Korean War, Military chaplains, News, saints and martyrs |
God put the desire to be a priest in Father Emil J. Kapaun’s heart at an early age, Bishop Carl A. Kemme of Wichita, Kansas, said during a homily Sept. 26 in Pilsen, the hometown of the war-hero priest and sainthood candidate.
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