Month: January 2025

(Vatican News) — In the hours following the annoucement of a ceasefire in Gaza, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expresses his cautious optimism, touching on the fragile hope for the future and the urgent humanitarian priorities needed … Continue reading → The post Pizzaballa on Gaza ceasefire: A delicate but most welcome…

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In this in-depth interview, Brother André Marie of the MICM joins Mike Church to discuss Michael Knowles’ attempt to convert Charlie Kirk to Catholicism. We analyze Kirk’s statements, Knowles’ approach, and what could’ve been said to better present the Catholic … Continue reading → The post What MICHAEL KNOWLES Should Have Said To CHARLIE KIRK…

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Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain, possibly as a martyr.

When I was a child in the 1950’s, we wanted to convert the world. Kids would say “I want to go to China” or “I want to go to the Middle East.” That missionary fervor is gone now. With these words, an old priest I knew expressed his dismay at the lost confidence in the…

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At the start of His public ministry, Jesus attended a wedding in Cana.  Why was this the perfect setting for Him to work His first miraculous sign? Gospel (Read Jn 2:1-11) St. John tells us that after Jesus called and assembled His disciples, “there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of…

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Readings for the Memorial of Saint Anthony, abbot Reading I Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 Let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed. For in fact we have received the Good News just as our ancestors did. But the word that they…

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WASHINGTON – “It is precisely through a greater commitment to bilateral collaboration and cooperation that positive change will come for the Cuban people,” said Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace. In response to the announcement that President Biden was removing Cuba…

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WASHINGTON – The negotiations of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the ongoing release of hostages were commended as an “encouraging sign of peace” by Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. “At the…

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Hail to the Chief we have chosen for the nation, Hail to the Chief! We salute you, one and all. Hail to the Chief, as we pledge cooperation, In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call. Yours is the aim … Continue reading → The post Inauguration Day and the United States appeared first on…

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(Aid to the Church in Need) — The number of priests and religious kidnapped increased in 2024, while the number arrested for reasons of persecution diminished. In total, ACN registered 122 cases impacting priests and religious, including 13 murders, 38 … Continue reading → The post Being a priest today: One of the most dangerous…

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