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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis remained in stable condition and did not suffer another respiratory episode a day after having “an isolated crisis of bronchospasm” that worsened his previously improving medical condition, the Vatican said. Still, the pope’s doctors at Rome’s Gemelli hospital said his “prognosis remains guarded.” With the crisis Feb. 28, the…
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This year of 2025, Mardi Gras arrives on March 4. While the season of Septuagesima, Shrovetide, Carneval — call it what you will — is ending, it is important to remember that keeping it is the hallmark of Catholic cultures. … Continue reading → The post Farewell Meat! appeared first on Catholicism.org.
St. Albinus was born in the late 5th century in Brittany, France. He entered monastic life at a young age, embracing a life of prayer and discipline. His holiness and wisdom led to his election as Abbot of Tintillac, where he revitalized the community through stricter adherence to monastic rules. Later, he was chosen as…
Reading 1 Sirach 17:1-15 God from the earth created man, and in his own image he made him. He makes man return to earth again, and endows him with a strength of his own. Limited days of life he gives him, with power over all things else on earth. He puts the fear of him…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After experiencing progressive improvement the past few days, Pope Francis experienced “an isolated crisis of bronchospasm” which led to coughing and “vomiting with inhalation,” which worsened his respiratory condition, the Vatican said. The pope had spent the morning “alternating respiratory physiotherapy with prayer in the chapel” in his suite of rooms…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The original statue of Our Lady of Fatima will make a rare journey from its shrine in Portugal to Rome in October 2025 for a Jubilee celebration of Marian spirituality. The statue will be present in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 12 for the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality,…
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“I think that Confession must be a very real trial to anyone as sensitive as you are,” Caryll Houselander writes in a letter to a teenage girl struggling with nervous illness after a difficult childhood. “No one likes it; the toughest old Catholics of my acquaintance get a sort of squiggle in their insides even…
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The first thing we think of when we hear the word “hope” is the future. After all, I can only “hope” for something I don’t yet have, right? Well, not if you’re a Christian. Hope, as a theological virtue, is inextricably tied to faith, which the Letter to the Hebrews defines as the “realization of…
Reading 1 Sirach 6:5-17 A kind mouth multiplies friends and appeases enemies,and gracious lips prompt friendly greetings.Let your acquaintances be many,but one in a thousand your confidant.When you gain a friend, first test him,and be not too ready to trust him.For one sort is a friend when it suits him,but he will not be with…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ clinical condition continued to improve Feb. 27, the Vatican said, and he had respiratory physiotherapy in the morning and the afternoon. For the second day in a row, the 88-year-old pope’s doctors at Rome’s Gemelli hospital did not use the word “critical” when describing the pope’s condition in the…
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