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When the father of this Italian saint died, his good mother brought up her twelve children well, even though they were very poor. “Oh, if I could only have the joy of seeing one of you become a saint!” she use to say. Once when she asked as usual, “which one of you is going…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Launching his papacy with a call for reconciliation and communion, Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as the successor of St. Peter by calling for “a united church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world.” “In this our time, we still see too…
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St. John I was born in Tuscany, Italy, in the late 5th century. He became Pope in 523 during a time of intense tension between the Arian king Theodoric the Great and the Catholic Church. Despite being elderly and frail when elected, Pope John I displayed remarkable wisdom and courage. At the king’s demand, he…
Reading I Acts 14:21-27 After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to…
ROME (CNS) — Under a strong spring sun, hundreds of men processed past ancient Roman ruins carrying statues of the crucified Christ and his sorrowful mother on heavy wood bases. They were accompanied May 17 by tens of thousands of members of Catholic confraternities from Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and dozens of other countries. The…
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On the trip to England and Scotland that I mentioned in my latest Ad Rem, I made an interesting discovery connecting a very out-of-the-way spot in Cornwall to a well-known part of American Catholic History. Our big adventure began with … Continue reading → The post A Cornwall Catholic Connection to America appeared first on…