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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During a meeting with Eastern Catholics, many of whom come from war-torn regions of the world, Pope Leo XIV pledged the Vatican’s full commitment to promoting peace and reconciliation. “The peoples of our world desire peace, and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let us…
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Then-Father Robert F. Prevost, who was the prior general of the Augustinians, attended the world Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization in 2012. Here are the full transcript and video of the wide-ranging interview with CNS after the synod. While our questions have been abbreviated his answers are included in full. Q: How should…
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WASHINGTON – With pornography continuing to hurt American families at an alarming rate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) just released the second edition of the bishops’ landmark pastoral response Create in Me a Pure Heart. “The need for us to help those trapped in this addiction is even more urgent today than it…
It has been too long since I have written in this space. A small litany of reasons may be found on our site, the chief of them being my Pilgrimage to England and Scotland, one aspect of which is the … Continue reading → The post A Pilgrimage to Glastonbury Abbey appeared first on Catholicism.org.
Earlier this year, I accepted the position of Coordinator of Campus Ministry at a small liberal arts college in my area. It has roughly 2000 students. Interestingly, fallen away Catholics are the largest group on campus with a self-identified religious affiliation: roughly 200-300 students. It’s not a Catholic college. It’s a progressive Lutheran one, which…
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On May 15, 1952, American readers were given their first extended opportunity to travel to Taulkinham, the setting of Flannery O’Connor’s novel, Wise Blood. The city was a place of strangers forced together, lost souls wandering in a concrete landscape of sin devoid of salvation. Her no-hope metropolis was a Southern Grotesque Hieronymus Bosch, sketched…
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Reading 1 Acts 13:13-25 From Paphos, Paul and his companions set sail and arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. But John left them and returned to Jerusalem. They continued on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they entered into the synagogue and took their seats. After the reading of the law and…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The day after advancing to the semi-finals of the Italian Open, Jannik Sinner paid a visit to a fan. While in Rome for the tournament May 14, the world’s highest-ranked tennis player walked into the halls of the Vatican and met with Pope Leo XIV, who proved to be a well-informed…
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Pope Leo today addressed eastern Catholics gathered in Rome for the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches. His address, published on the Vatican’s website and covered by Vatican News, was to the assembled partriarchs, cardinals, bishops, priests, male and female religious, … Continue reading → The post Pope Leo’s Address to Eastern Churches: We Need Your…
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