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As Catholics, we are called to grow continually in virtue throughout our lives. So much of our earthly existence relates to exercising virtue, so that, through God’s mercy and grace, we may grow closer to him and live with him forever in heaven. There is an essential Christian virtue that we rarely discuss as a virtue: gratitude.
BALTIMORE — Three days after he was pistol-whipped and robbed, the pastor of St. Leo the Church in Baltimore's Little Italy said he has been overwhelmed by support from his parish and the wider community as he heals from his injuries and takes time to come to terms with what happened.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis invited Italy's bishops to live the "beatitudes of a bishop," an adaptation of the traditional Eight Beatitudes to provide guiding principles for being a "good shepherd" of a diocese.
BERLIN — Some of the world's most iconic Christmas markets in Germany and Austria were forced to close shortly after or just before they opened, as COVID-19 infections surged across Europe.
WARSAW, Poland — A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work.
VATICAN CITY — With Advent coming during an ongoing pandemic, Christians are called to hold on to hope and foster a season of compassion and tenderness, Pope Francis said.
VATICAN CITY — Be confident in God like Mary and imitate her by listening and accepting his will, Pope Francis told members of the secular institute of the Missionary Oblate Cooperators of the Immaculate Conception.
VATICAN CITY — Calling the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul "a great spiritual force in the church and in the world," Pope Francis urged the sisters to help secure fundamental rights for those they care for, help safeguard creation and pass on Christian values to young people.
WASHINGTON — The sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington's Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery's Lively-Fulcher organ.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis told young people that, with Jesus, people can find the courage to swim against the current, to be free and authentic, and to stand up for their dreams and ideals of truth, love, justice and peace.
