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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God loves every person and wants to help everyone discover their inherent value and dignity, especially those who feel unworthy or unappreciated, Pope Leo XIV said. “God wants to give his kingdom, that is, full, eternal and happy life, to everyone,” the pope said June 4 as he held his weekly…
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Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest because he was convinced he was called to missionary work. He had argued and pestered his abbot into letting him go because he would gain…
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(Catholic World News/ACN) — Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Gaza’s sole Catholic parish, described the situation in Gaza as “very bad.” “Inside the parish compound, we are doing as well as possible, though we hear a lot of shelling, and … Continue reading → The post Situation in Gaza still ‘very bad,’ priest says appeared…
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WASHINGTON – Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop David A. Zubik, 75, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and has appointed Bishop Mark A. Eckman, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, as his successor. The resignation and appointment were publicized in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2025, by…
What if salt is losing its flavor? What if Christianity is being reduced from a dramatic, intimate, living Faith to a private devotion, a routine, an aside? Instead of going out and making disciples of all nations, we are going out and barely letting the nations know that we ourselves are disciples. Our lives look…
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Then he led them out as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. To get to Bethany, which was two miles east of Jerusalem, Christ and the Apostles would have descended down the steep Kidron Valley and then ascended up the Mount of Olives. At the western base of the Mount of Olives…
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Reading 1 Acts 20:28-38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus: “Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the Church of God that he acquired with his own Blood. I know that after my departure…