Day: February 17, 2025

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis is suffering from a “polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract,” test results revealed Feb. 17, “which required a further modification of his therapy,” a Vatican medical bulletin said. “All the tests performed to date indicate a complex clinical picture that will require an appropriate hospital stay,” said the bulletin….

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Artists and cultural figures must be “custodians of the beatitudes,” embracing their vocation to create beauty, reveal truth and inspire hope in a troubled world, Pope Francis wrote to people participating in the Jubilee for Artists and the World of Culture. “Art is not a luxury, but a necessity of the…

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Reading 1 Genesis 4:1-15, 25 The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. In the course of time…

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Most Christians, including many Catholics, do not believe in the Dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. Many point to the instances in the gospels referring to Jesus’ brothers and sisters, believing this to be directly contradictory to the dogmatic teaching. Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James…

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When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. (Mk. 6:2) Most Americans born before the twenty-first century would recognize the name “Mr. Rogers”—of the famous PBS children’s television show. We all remember how he started each episode hanging his sports jacket in the closet, switching…

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