By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – With Jesus’ resurrection “love has triumphed, mercy has been victorious,” Pope Francis said in his first Easter message “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world). “Let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish,” the […]
1/1/70
Reading Time 4 min
By Christina Capecchi
“It was 1415,” my friend corrected her husband over a dinner of wings and beer on that stunning Monday when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. We were discussing, like so many across the globe, our newly acquired bit of papal trivia: the last pope to resign. Over the course of the day, there had […]
1/1/70
Reading Time 3 min