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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even if some members of the Synod of Bishops end up feeling disappointed by the results of the synod, “God’s providence is at work in this assembly, bringing us to the Kingdom in ways that God alone knows,” the spiritual adviser to the synod on synodality told them. “The triumph of…
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St. John was born at Capistrano, Italy in 1385, the son of a former German knight in that city. He studied law at the University of Perugia and practiced as a lawyer in the courts of Naples. King Ladislas of Naples appointed him governor of Perugia. During a war with a neighboring town he was…
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From EWTN’s YouTube channel: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has been living in the Holy Land for over 35 years and so has seen his share of conflict and violence. But in this exclusive interview with EWTN’s Colm Flynn, he says that … Continue reading → The post Cardinal Pizzaballa: Two-State Solution to End Israel-Hamas War is…
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On May 13th, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot four times by Mehmet Ali Ağca as he was entering St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. While suffering severe blood loss and nearing death, the pontiff’s thoughts were on the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, which had taken place exactly sixty-four years before, to…
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Those who drive carts cannot speak without putting the name of my Son in the middle. – Blessed Mother to the children at La Salette In Part I of this article, we discussed the Blessed Mother’s tearful appearance at La Salette in 1846. In it, she cautions two shepherd children (and the rest of the…
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Reading 1 EPH 2:12-22 Brothers and sisters: You were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the Blood of Christ. For…
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Karol J. Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometres from Cracow, on May 18, 1920. He was the second of two sons born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died in 1929. His eldest brother Edmund, a…
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The International Association of Exorcists have released a book co-authored by the Association’s Vice President, Father Francesco Bamonte, and spokesperson Alberto Castaldini: The Dark Charm of Halloween. CNA has published a piece by Walter Sánchez Silva on the book. Below … Continue reading → The post Exorcists Publish Book: ‘The Dark Charm of Halloween’ appeared…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis called on the faithful to yearn to serve, not thirst for power, as he proclaimed 14 new saints, including Canada-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, and 11 martyrs. “Those who dominate do not win, only those who serve out of love,” he…
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Reading 1 EPH 2:1-10 Brothers and sisters:You were dead in your transgressions and sinsin which you once lived following the age of this world,following the ruler of the power of the air,the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh,following the wishes…
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