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By Ann M. Augherton
During a recent vacation to the Baltics in Europe, Stacy Rausch, former Catholic Herald production coordinator, had Latvia on her schedule. In 1996, former diocesan priest Father Antons Justs was named bishop there and died four years ago. Rausch graciously agreed to find his grave. Bishop Anton Justs served in the Arlington diocese in Alexandria, […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In the month Catholics traditionally honor the dead, the Vatican Museums opened a new entrance to an ancient necropolis where carved marble sarcophagi sit near open graves filled with bones. In the Via Triumphalis Necropolis, some of the tombs and cremation urns have the person’s name on them. Others also include the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Often enough, the first people who need to be evangelized are Christians themselves, Pope Francis said. “A Christian who is discontented, sad, dissatisfied, or worse still, resentful or rancorous, is not credible” and will not attract anyone to a relationship with Jesus and a life of faith, the pope said Nov. 15 […]
Global
By Hannah Brockhaus
The Vatican Museums have announced a series of novelties beginning both this month and after the new year, in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year. Beginning Nov. 17, the Vatican Museums will open an additional entrance every Friday and Saturday for those who wish to only visit the Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis, the ruins […]
National
By Jonah McKeown
Sheet music was made available online last week for the official hymns of the upcoming National Eucharistic Revival, which were chosen from among hundreds of entries in a contest last summer. “The goal of this contest was to give voice to the truths of our faith in a way that only music can, inviting us […]
Global
By Nicolás de Cárdenas
Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day, a day that many in the worldwide medical community focus on a disease that causes about 4 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization. The Catholic Church considers St. Rafael Arnáiz Baron to be the patron saint of those suffering from diabetes. Considered one of the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Embrace God’s unconditional love and live in a way that is based on and radiates hope, Pope Francis told Catholic young people. Christian hope “is the celebration of the love of the risen Christ, who is always at our side, even when he seems far from us,” the pope said in his […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Idris, who sleeps on a sidewalk a couple blocks from the Vatican, waited more or less patiently under the colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s Square to speak to his physician, Dr. Massimo Ralli. The doctor was giving interviews Nov. 13 about the Vatican’s “Madre di Misericordia” (Mother of Mercy) clinic while Idris waited […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — World leaders must ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the people affected by the ongoing wars in Gaza and Sudan, Pope Francis said. “In Gaza, let the wounded be rescued immediately, let civilians be protected, let far more humanitarian aid be allowed to reach that stricken population,” he said after praying the Angelus […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Like replenishing the oil that fuels a lamp, Christians must nourish their interior lives by paying attention to the movements of their hearts, Pope Francis said. “Many times, we are very careful about our appearance,” he told some 20,000 people gathered Nov. 12 to pray the Angelus with him in St. Peter’s […]
