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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and nourish the faithful and to help bring God’s hope to the whole world, Pope Leo XIV said. For that reason, the pope invited the cardinals “to renew together today our complete commitment to…
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St. Damien of Molokai was born in 1840 in Tremelo, Belgium. As a young man, he joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and later volunteered to serve as a missionary in Hawaii. In 1873, he offered to minister to the remote leper colony on the island of Molokai, where people…
Reading I Acts 9:31-42 The Church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. She was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit she grew in numbers. As Peter was passing through every region, he went down to the holy ones living…
ROME (CNS) — While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of the U.S.-based cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected him said nationality was not a factor. “I think the impact of him being an American was…
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Who is this new Holy Father, this Pope Leo XIV, a native of Chicago and Augustian Frair with a doctorate in Canon Law, who, while an American, is not an American Bishop (not part of the USCCB) as his episcopal … Continue reading → The post Introducing Pope Leo XIV appeared first on Catholicism.org.