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By Soren Johnson
How are you? “I’m so busy!” We all say it — and we all say it all the time. It’s a status symbol. The busier we are, the more important we are. Busy is an adjective meaning “engaged in action,” “occupied,” “being in use,” or “full of activity.” America rewards, incentivizes and celebrates activity. Don’t […]
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By Jonathan Liedl
Delegates of the German Synodal Way overwhelmingly passed measures to change church practices based on transgender ideology and to push the universal church to ordain women to the sacramental diaconate March 11. The votes took place on the final day of the process’ concluding assembly, held in Frankfurt March 9-11. On previous days, delegates voted […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Jesus quenches humanity’s thirst with love, Pope Francis said. “And he does with us what he did with the Samaritan woman — he comes to meet us in our daily life, he shares our thirst, he promises us living water that makes eternal life well up within us,” the pope said before […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Women must contribute the natural harmony of their thoughts, feelings and actions to the development and use of artificial intelligence, said Pope Francis. Speaking to a group of researchers behind a study on the women and leadership, the pope said that the lived experience of women should be engaged in crafting solutions […]
Pope Francis
By Courtney Mares
Pope Francis has said that gender ideology is “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations” today. In an interview with journalist Elisabetta Piqué for the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación, Pope Francis explained the reasoning behind his strong statement. “Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” Pope Francis said in the interview published […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY —For a decade, even when discussing the internal workings of the Vatican, Pope Francis has insisted the church is not the church of Christ if it does not reach out, sharing the “joy of the Gospel” and placing the poor at the center of its attention. Signals that his papacy would be different […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — From the beginning of his pontificate 10 years ago, Pope Francis set out to reform the structure and attitudes of the Roman Curia and knew he also had to reform the Vatican’s financial system and stewardship of resources. One month after his election, he announced he was forming an international Council of […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis greeted the thousands of faithful gathered in a rain-soaked St. Peter’s Square March 13, 2013, he quipped that his brother cardinals looked almost to “the ends of the earth” to find a new bishop of Rome. The end of the world, in this case, was Buenos Aires, Argentina, where […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
On this 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election as our Holy Father and successor to St. Peter, we remember his openness to God’s plan. Though he had other ideas for his future, God called him to shepherd our Church as Vicar of Christ and Pope Francis humbly answered this call. Pope Francis often says that […]
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