(Vatican News) After a two-week absence, Pope Francis appeared once again at the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking Saint Peter’s Square for the noontime Sunday Angelus. A week ago he led the Angelus prayer from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, greeting…
(CNA) Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a giant of 20th-century Catholicism, will be beatified on Sept. 12.
25 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BJohn 6:1-15 The Miracle of Sharing Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau The events leading to the solemn proclamation of Jesus that He is the bread of life begin…
(NCR Online) Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.” Meanwhile,…
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The Holy Mass is an action of Christ where He offers Himself: He is both Priest and Victim; He is both Offerer and the one Offered. The Church (which is Christ’s Mystical Body) and everyone…
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I am a university student. I have recently approached the Faith, thanks to some friends who are part of a fairly famous ecclesial movement. However, there is something that does not convince me of what they…
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 18 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BMark 6:30-34 The gospel we read today is the continuation of the passage we heard last Sunday where the twelve apostles were sent…
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent The second title of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’, is On Care for Our Common Home. As “St Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister….our sister, Mother Earth, who sustains…
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro There were Christian nuclei in Sendai, Miwake (today Mizusawa), Yamori (today Maesawa), Shizu, Ichinoseki, Sannoseki and Ishuzumori and the port of Akita functioned, as today, as a maritime antechamber for isolated Hokkaido, the name through which…
(CNS) Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability and is working to help others realize that as well.