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By Kevin Schweers
The growing parish of Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria can look forward to new places to worship and pass along the Catholic faith in about a year, after breaking ground April 23 on a significant construction project. On a sun-splashed third Sunday of Easter, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the building site after celebrating Mass. […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Seven weeks after announcing the new composition of his international Council of Cardinals, Pope Francis led a two-day meeting of the council focused on situations of conflict in the world and on progress in implementing his reform of the Roman Curia. The pope and the council members met April 24-25 at the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — After a half-hour private meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis gave the prime minister of Ukraine a bronze plaque featuring a bird and a flower alongside the inscription, “Peace is a fragile flower.” In return, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal gave Pope Francis a book of photographs documenting the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — At least three dozen women will be voting members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October, Pope Francis has decided. In a decision formalized April 17, “the Holy Father approved the extension of participation in the synodal assembly to ‘non-bishops’ — priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, lay men […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Every Christian has a vocation to respond to God’s love and to share that love with others, Pope Francis said. “The Lord’s call is grace, complete gift and at the same time a commitment to bring the Gospel to others,” the pope wrote in his message for the World Day of Prayer […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has appointed 19 people as members of the Dicastery for Evangelization’s first section and has named another 15 as consultants. The first section, led by Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella, formally is known as “Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World,” and has responsibility for promoting evangelization, missionary discipleship, […]
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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Jesus knows how to turn every difficulty or fall into a step forward, Pope Francis said. With Christ’s love “even that which seems wearisome and unsuccessful can appear under another light,” he said April 23. Before reciting the midday “Regina Coeli” prayer with about 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — By calling itself the “Papal Foundation” and supporting projects identified by the Vatican, members of the U.S.-based group have an obligation to promote the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said. “Unfortunately, we see even in our day how the unity of the church is wounded by division,” Pope Francis told […]
National
By Tyler Arnold
An abortion-inducing drug used to kill preborn children up to 10 weeks’ gestation will stay on the market as a legal battle over the pill continues following a decision April 21 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court’s 7-2 ruling blocks a lower court order that would have taken the drug mifepristone off the market […]
