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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
SANTIAGO, Cuba – Pope Francis called Cuba to a “revolution of tenderness” as he celebrated Mass in the Minor Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre. While only about 60 percent of Cubans are baptized Catholics, the little statue of Our Lady of Charity, discovered 400 years ago, is also […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary, Blessed Junipero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive only when it is shared. Celebrating a late afternoon Mass outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 23, the pope declared the holiness of St. Junipero, founder of a string of missions […]
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By Catholic News Service
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (CNS) – Pope Francis arrived in the United States the late afternoon of Sept. 22 to begin his first apostolic journey as pontiff. His plane, an Alitalia jetliner, touched down at Joint Base Andrews near Washington at 3:51 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, nine minutes ahead of schedule. In the minutes before […]
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Just as the soon-to-be-sainted Franciscan priest walked hundreds of miles to share the Gospel, so many seminarians and novices traveled great distances to the canonization Mass of Junípero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 23. “It is such an overwhelming blessing, a great privilege to be […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
SANTIAGO, Cuba – A key task of a traveling pope is to confirm his brothers and sisters in the faith. For Pope Francis in Cuba, that ministry took on added importance as Cuba and its people stand on the threshold of potentially epochal change. Many people inside and outside Cuba hope that normalized U.S.-Cuban relations […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis introduced himself to President Barack Obama and all people of the United States as a “son of an immigrant family” arriving in the United States for the first time to learn from others and to share from his own experience. In a country the pope said he knows was “largely built” […]
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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington will be filled with more than 25,000 people later this afternoon for the papal Mass during which Blessed Junipero Serra will be canonized.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
“Is it not enough,” she asked me earnestly, “to be a woman at home, caring for a family? Everyone around me has a job that enables her to contribute to her family financially. Even within the church, I’m bombarded every day with clarion calls to do more, to give more. And here I am doing […]
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By Katie Scott
Deep peace, the kind that transforms the soul and ripples outward into the world, is not guaranteed in this life. Benedictine Sister Dolores Dean knows what it’s like to obtain such a gift, to lose it and then – nearly a lifetime later – come home to it for good. “It hasn’t always been easy, […]
Global
By Reviewed David Gibson
His duel with Satan one morning in 1982 “felt like ‘a biblical scene,'” St. John Paul II later “would tell a top aide.” In The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions and Miracles in the Modern Age, John Thavis describes what happened that morning when a bishop and parish priest brought a woman named Francesca, […]
