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Pope Saint Gregory III: A Shepherd of Faith and Defender of Tradition Story of Pope Saint Gregory III: Pope Saint Gregory III served as the Bishop of Rome from 731 to 741 during a time of great challenges for the Church. Born in Syria, Gregory became pope at a pivotal moment when the Byzantine Empire,…
Reading 1 Is 40:1-11 Comfort, give comfort to my people,says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to herthat her service is at an end,her guilt is expiated;Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORDdouble for all her sins. A voice cries out:In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!Make straight in…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Theology should serve as a guiding companion for those seeking meaning and truth, particularly during life’s pivotal moments, Pope Francis said, calling on theologians and theology faculties to expand their outreach. Speaking to participants in a conference on the future of theology organized by the Dicastery for Culture and Education, the…
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Over the weekend, I emailed a Syrian lady I know to assure her that her family back in Syria are in my prayers. She lives in the United States now, but keeps close contact with family and friends in Syria. … Continue reading → The post From A Syrian Christian Friend, on Current Events appeared…
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He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about Christ’s promise of resurrection. As a learned…
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Reading 1 Gn 3:9-15, 20 After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then he asked, “Who told you that you…
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The Immaculate Conception is not the virgin birth. I want to make that abundantly clear at the beginning, since many people get confused on that point. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception does not say that Jesus’ conception was “immaculate” because it didn’t involve sex, which is another common misconception I encounter. (All of us…
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On December 9, 1531, a Mexican Chichimec peasant named Juan Diego received his first of four miraculous apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many of us are familiar with the story: the Blessed Mother, under the title of “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” miraculously left her image on his tilma, a tilma that has not disintegrated in…
ROME (CNS) — With the city of Rome presenting a gauntlet of major roadworks and construction projects ahead of the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis used the disruptions as an opportunity to encourage people to do some spiritual renovation before the jubilee. On a cloudy afternoon with the threat of rain Dec….
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Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised in line with the Aztec pagan religion,…
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