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VATICAN CITY — Lent is a time to reconsider the path one is taking in life and to finally answer God's invitation to return to him with one's whole heart, Pope Francis said.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Feb. 14 reestablishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as a means to work with religious and secular organizations to help with COVID-19 and economic recovery and confront systemic racism.
I’ve never had to write an obituary. I realize how fortunate that makes me. As a professional writer, I’ve imagined what it would be like to write one. Perhaps that’s morbid, but it’s a curiosity of mine.
BALTIMORE — Father Thomas Gills vividly remembers the blaring sirens that signaled the incoming air arrival of critically wounded U.S. servicemen to Balad Air Base in Iraq.
PEORIA, Ill — In a celebration blending religious and civic pride in one of Peoria's most famous and influential historic residents, the street outside St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria was given the honorary designation of "Bishop Fulton Sheen Avenue" Feb. 4.
VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis met with a Catholic News Service delegation marking the agency's 100th anniversary, he encouraged the agency to continue to foster dialogue and honest communication.
When the coronavirus pandemic started last March, all sports practices and games suddenly were canceled or postponed indefinitely. Spring seasons ended without warning. Schools and teams have struggled to figure out how to navigate athletics since.
“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Ps 121:1-2).
“Since God created him man and woman, their mutual love becomes an image of the absolute and unfailing love with which God loves man” (The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1604). This begs the question, “How does God love man?”
It is my first winter in the Northeast. Here, snow falls upon fallen snow. Great mounds are piled in parking lots and driveway margins, and one wonders if they will melt before April. I’ve been outside quite a lot, actually. Though I have neglected to buy drapes or rugs for our new house, we are all fully outfitted in appropriate attire for comfortably spending hours outdoors even in February.
