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Digital missionaries continue journey to proclaim the Gospel online
Posted on 10/20/2024 09:16 AM ()
Three Vatican officials hold an online prayer vigil at the tomb of St. Peter to conclude the Digital Synod initiative, encouraging thousands of Catholic digital missionaries in their service to the Church in the key of synodality.
Bishop Faddoul: New Maronite Saints are ‘role models for all laymen’
Posted on 10/20/2024 04:40 AM ()
As Pope Francis canonizes 14 new Saints, including the 11 Martyrs of Damascus, Bishop Simon Faddoul praises the three Maronite laymen among them for bearing witness to fidelity to Christ.
Pope appeals for protection of Yanomami people’s rights in Amazon rainforest
Posted on 10/20/2024 03:43 AM ()
Pope Francis urges the political and civil authorities of countries in the Amazonia to safeguard the fundamental rights of the indigenous Yanomami people, who live on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Pope at Canonization Mass: 'Service is the Christian way of life'
Posted on 10/20/2024 02:34 AM ()
Pope Francis presides at the Canonization Mass for 14 new Saints, including 11 martyrs killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith, and upholds their Christian witness by noting they lived Jesus’ way of service.
Pope Francis: 'Sports are the hymn to life'
Posted on 10/20/2024 00:00 AM ()
Pope Francis sends a message to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, and challenges the Italian newspaper to report on the victories and defeats of athletes as “a way of thinking and living sport as a hymn to life.”
Consolata missionaries: rediscovering meditation in a 'TikTok society'
Posted on 10/19/2024 08:48 AM ()
Fr. James Bhola Lengarin, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries the institution founded by Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, emphasizes the Italian priest’s focus on education at a ‘Meeting Point’ organized at the Holy See Press Office in anticipation of the canonizations by Pope Francis on the morning of Sunday, October 20.
Pope John Paul II on Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko: Freedom in truth
Posted on 10/19/2024 07:45 AM ()
Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Polish priest, was killed for his anti-communist support and care for workers 40 years ago, and Pope St. John Paul II named him the patron saint of the Polish presence in Europe.
Mission Sunday: TPMS invites Catholics to hope, faith, action
Posted on 10/19/2024 07:36 AM ()
Ahead of the 98th World Mission Sunday, set for October 20, the Pontifical Mission Societies releases a video to showcase the faces and voices of missionaries working in all corners of the globe.
Lord's Day Reflection: 'Whoever wishes to be great'
Posted on 10/19/2024 06:52 AM ()
As the Church marks the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under the theme: “Whoever wishes to be great".
New Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza refugee camp
Posted on 10/19/2024 05:31 AM ()
Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.