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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Scientific discovery and knowledge are meant to benefit all of humanity, Pope Leo XIV told young astronomers. “Be generous in sharing what you learn and what you experience, as best you can and however you can,” he told them during an audience at the Vatican June 16. The pope spoke to…
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St. Emily de Vialar, Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph “of the Apparition” Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of France….
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WASHINGTON – “We urge the United States and the broader international community to exert every effort to renew a multilateral diplomatic engagement for the attainment of a durable peace between Israel and Iran,” said Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. As tension…
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Just before Father’s Day, I came across a letter my father wrote and published on Catholic Exchange back in 2007—a letter that reminded me how this apostolate has always been fueled by a remarkable community of believers, which is precisely why Catholic Exchange has been able to continue, and flourish, for the last 24 years….
I would like to propose a new title for St. Joseph in his Litany: “Icon of Fatherhood.” Allow me to explain why this title, and why now. Our world is in the midst of a great turning. An unseen battle rages, and the speed of degradation visible all around us has increased exponentially. I would…
Reading 1 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 Brothers and sisters: As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the…
He was a man who lived in the first century, anno domini, during the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when the Greco-Roman world was at its height, and the people’s worldview entertained all possible beliefs: in a pantheon of gods and goddesses, similar to humans, only more powerful; in eastern Mediterranean savior gods offering salvation; in…
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Born on St. John Francis Regis, S.J. was born in 1597 in southern France. He entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at age 18 and was ordained a priest in 1630. Though he hoped to be sent on foreign missions, he was assigned to rural France—an area deeply affected by the Wars of Religion and…