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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The day after his inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV had a closed-door meeting at the Vatican with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who gave him a Chicago Bears jersey and a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump. Vance delivered the letter from President Trump and his wife Melania before the start…
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In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as twenty people died each day just in the hospital alone. And many of the people who died were those who were needed to tend the…
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WASHINGTON – On the weekend of May 31-June 1, many Catholic dioceses in the United States will take the annual collection for the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Communication Campaign in their parishes. The collection helps the Church spread the Gospel message using modern media tools to inform, inspire, and enlighten. “While the timeless message of the…
We live in a time marked by war, terrorism, and political upheaval. An unprecedented social, moral, and spiritual crisis looms over the world today. Societies grapple with moral relativism, and the sanctity of life and family is under threat. There is no purely human solution to the problems we face. More than 100 years ago,…
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One night, I went to bed mulling over in my mind a particular ongoing difficulty. It was just one of those struggles in life that does not occupy the whole of one’s day, but still, it is always there, in the background, unresolved. When resolution to a difficulty is evidently going to take time, often…
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Reading 1 Acts 14:5-18 There was an attempt in Iconiumby both the Gentiles and the Jews,together with their leaders,to attack and stone Paul and Barnabas.They realized it,and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbeand to the surrounding countryside,where they continued to proclaim the Good News. At Lystra there was a crippled man, lame…