Pope Francis continued his catechesis on Christian Hope at Wednesday’s General Audience, taking as his starting point a reading from St Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Rom 15, 13-14: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy [...]
The true shepherd knows how to step down from his church, because he knows that he is not at the center of history, but is a free man who has served without compromises and without taking control of his flock. That was Pope Francis’ message during his homily at Mass celebrated on Tuesday in the Vatican’s [...]
May 27, 2017, Saturday "The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family." —Sister Lucia of Fatima, in the 1980s, in a correspondence with the then-monsignor Carlo Caffara. Caffara, now a 78-year-old cardinal, reveals and discusses the correspondence below The Last Battle American journalist Diane Montagna published [...]
May 27, 2017, Saturday Universal or Particular? The article below, by American Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz, originally published on May 22 (five days ago) in the important American journal of ideas First Things (link), is noteworthy. (The journal calls itself "America's most influential journal of religion and public life.") (Below, the cover of the April 2017 [...]
May 24, 2017, Wednesday Trump and Francis meet at 8:30 a.m. this morning... ... and say goodbye at 9:00 a.m.... ("I won't forget what you said," Trump tells Pope Francis after their private meeting inside the Vatican this morning; AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool) And in between, they talked for 30 minutes with one translator present... (continued [...]
May 23, 2017, Tuesday Donald Trump to meet Pope Francis in the morning... And so, in the end, US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis will meet in the morning in the Vatican, at 8:30 a.m., Rome time. (Below, US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, arriving in Rome today, May 23; both will meet [...]
May 23, 2017, Tuesday Link to a moving video on the handing over of the relic of St. Nicholas to the Russian Orthodox in Bari, Italy, on May 21, Sunday ========================= Followup on the Relics of St. Nicholas "Almost every day, requests come to us to share the relics of St. Nicholas, and what has happened [...]
May 22, 2017, Monday “Almost all houses [in Russia] in the past and Orthodox people today have three icons at their homes: an icon of the Savior, of the Holy Virgin and of St. Nicholas." —Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Sunday, May 21 (yesterday) in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, commenting on the [...]
Pope Francis wrapped up an intense 1-day apostolic visit to the Italian port city of Genoa with the celebration of Mass. To the faithful present for the open-air ceremony in Genoa’s Kennedy Square, the Pope said Christians must never tire of working for the common good, they must never fear going out into the world with [...]
May 27, 2017, Saturday "The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family." —Sister Lucia of Fatima, in the 1980s, in a correspondence with the then-monsignor Carlo Caffara. Caffara, now a 78-year-old cardinal, reveals and discusses the correspondence below The Last Battle American journalist Diane Montagna published [...]
