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During the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session, state senators and delegates cast key votes on critical issues impacting human life, dignity, and the common good. The Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy agency representing Virginia’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses, released a report on the session April 24. The report contains three charts: A […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope and love emphasize a connection to other people fueled by belief in God and reliance on prayer, Pope Francis said. “The Christian is never alone. He or she does good not […]
Art
By George P. Matysek Jr.
For one brief moment at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the hopes of the world seemed concentrated on a single man standing alone outside the massive Duomo di Milano in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, one of the most acclaimed tenors of his time, kept his arms at his sides and remained motionless as his powerful […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group began to pray for a miracle. Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man, “Paulo G.,” in Uberlandia, Brazil, as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Elena […]
Pope Francis
Pope Francis held his regular spring meeting with the officers of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops April 18 in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.
Movies
By Francesca Pollio Fenton
St. Teresa of Calcutta once said: “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” Her words appear at the end of the new movie “Unsung Hero,” which tells the true story of the Smallbone family, widely recognized in the music industry for brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone of the Grammy-award-winning […]
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A graduate school symposium features Cardinal Raymond Burke and other theologians.
Global
By Justin McLellan
ROME — The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said. Speaking with Catholic News Service before formally taking possession of his titular church in Rome April 21, Cardinal Christophe […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said. “Consider this: for Christ, I am important, he thinks of […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Longing for the past will not save contemplative religious orders from closing their monasteries or experiencing shifts in vocations, Pope Francis said. Discerning how to adapt the structures of a centuries-old religious order to the modern age “means not relying solely on human strategies, defensive strategies, when it comes to reflecting on […]
