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Anno Domini 2025 is a Jubilee Year, proclaimed to be so by His Holiness, Pope Francis in his May 9, 2024 Bull of Intinction, Spes Non Confudit. It began on Christmas Eve, 2024, and will conclude on the Feast of … Continue reading → The post This Jubilee Year, Heap Coals of Fire Upon Your…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During the Holy Year 2025, the international community should strive “to overcome the logic of confrontation and embrace instead the logic of encounter,” Pope Francis told ambassadors and other diplomats accredited to the Holy See. In accordance with the biblical tradition of jubilees, the Holy Year is a time to rediscover…
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William Berruyer, of the illustrious family of the ancient counts of Nevers, was educated by Peter the hermit, archdeacon of Soissons, his uncle by the mother’s side. He learned from his infancy to despise the folly and emptiness of the riches and grandeur of the world, to abhor its pleasures, and to tremble at its…
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There is a profound spiritual renewal taking place in the heart of the Church. It is subtle and can only be found in the still small whisper of the Lord. I noticed it within myself in the last few years. Conversations I had with friends in both the laity and the priesthood began to shift….
Death comes as a thief in the night, we are told by a reliable authority. And death spares no one. We distinguish between those who are celebrities and those who are not. Death makes no such distinction. We think of giants of the silver screen as “stars.” But even stars perish. The entire universe, physicists…
Reading I 1 John 4:19–5:4 Beloved, we love God because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him:…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While society is increasingly focused on pushing the limits of human achievement, it must not lose sight of its duty to protect the dignity of the vulnerable, especially children exploited by the “scourge of child labor,” Pope Francis said. “Today we know how to turn our eyes toward Mars or virtual…
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(Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA) — China’s oldest priest has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of brave adherence to the faith of the Catholic Church in the face of persecution. Father Joseph Guo Fude, SVD, died on Dec. 30, 2024, two months … Continue reading → The post China’s oldest priest dies at 104: a life of…
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Born in Africa, Adrian became abbot of the monastery at Nerida, near Naples. He declined an appointment as archbishop of Canterbury, but accompanied St. Theodore to England when the latter was appointed Archbishop. Theodore appointed him Abbot of SS. Peter and Paul Monastery (later changed to St. Augustine’s) in Canterbury, and during his thirty-nine years’…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it. From Dec. 24, when the pope inaugurated the Holy Year, to Jan. 7, the Vatican said, 545,532 people from around the world have made…
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