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On March 2, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia and the Ukrainian ambassador to the US at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington.
Blinken said how i…
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We develop barriers around our hearts that keep the world at an emotional distance. The most important casualty, however, is our relationship with the Lord, as we often wind up keeping Him at a distance as well.
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Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. / Episkopat.pl/Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).
Warsaw, Poland, Mar 2, 2022 / 22:55 pm (CNA).
The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference has urged the head of the Rus…
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The Lenten season is once again upon us. As we spend these 40 days putting sin and the things of this world to death within us—by a more focused return to the Lord through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—we can profit a great deal by daily turning our mind and hearts to His Passion and death. […]
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has reported that Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk, the Latin Rite bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, had…
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Read MoreXXI And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne; His belly was up-blowne with luxury,…
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On Monday, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin spoke of “the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.” He pronounced the tyranny that…
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The legal status of religion in Germany is far different than in the U.S., in that the German government collects…
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Dozens of headstones were toppled at a Ukrainian Catholic cemetery in the Baltimore suburbs last week. Church officials reported that…
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Michael Pakaluk writes that dieting is charity: care for the amazing gift of the Creator, the body – if the asceticism is for God’s glory.
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Read MoreCardinal Pietro Parolin presided over the customary Mass on Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Rome’s Basilica of Santa Sabina in place of Pope Francis, who was resting due to acute knee pain doctors are treating. The Cardinal read the Pope’s homily, which recalled this day of prayer and fasting for Ukraine.
Read MoreIn his second reflection in a new catechetical series on old age, Pope Francis said the earliest moments of human history required a “slow and prolonged initiation,” as human beings, created in God’s image and likeness, yet bearing the fragility of mortal existence, needed time “to decipher experiences and confront the enigmas of life.” During that same time, he said, “the spiritual quality of man was also slowly cultivated.”
Read MoreCommunion Antiphon: Ps 51 (50):12:Create a pure heart for me, O God; renew a steadfast spirit within me.The ashes are scarcely washed clean from our foreheads. In this second Lenten Mass we get down to work on our spiritual program. The first four Mass…
Read MoreArchbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, the apostolic nuncio in Ukraine, has announced his plan to remain in Kiev despite the Russian threat to the capital city.
The Lithuanian-born Vatican diplomat, who has served in Ukraine since last June, said that he woul…
In the strongest language used to date by a ranking Vatican official, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches has denounced the “unjustified invasion” of Ukraine.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri made the remark during a service o…
Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, the president of the Polish bishops’ conference, has appealed to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to call for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The archbishop urged the Russian prelate to press President P…
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