Bishops vote for doc on communion with reverberations for Biden
- Jun 19, 2021
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Being meek is rare today, but it’s essential for holiness, pope says
- Nov 2, 2020
The Eight Beatitudes describe the path to holiness, but the call to meekness seems particularly challenging today, Pope Francis said.
Pope to celebrate private Mass for All Souls at Vatican cemetery
- Oct 28, 2020
Due to restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, Pope Francis will celebrate the feast of All Souls with a “strictly private” Mass at a Vatican cemetery.
Celebrating the anonymous change-makers in the Church
- Aug 30, 2020
There’s something fitting about it having been a Catholic priest who coined the famous phrase about being able to accomplish great things as long as you don’t want the credit, because of all environments on earth where that’s true, the Vatican merits a special pride of place.
All Saints and All Souls both display beauty of the Lord’s triumph over death
- Nov 3, 2019
The feasts of All Saints and All Souls were a time of hope on one hand, but sorrow on the other. And yet, they are twins of a single truth.
Pray for the dead, gain indulgences for them, cardinal urges Catholics
- Nov 1, 2019
The early November feasts of All Saints and All Souls are reminders that God’s church exists both on earth and in heaven and that all the faithful, living and dead, can and should pray for each other, a top Vatican official wrote.
No plaster saints: God gives grace to live holy lives, pope says
- Nov 1, 2019
The saints were flesh-and-blood people whose lives included real struggles and joys, and whose holiness reminds all the baptized that they, too, are called to be saints, Pope Francis said.
Pope’s cemetery visit for All Soul’s makes pro-life statement
- Nov 2, 2018
Today Pope Francis visits Laurentino cemetery on Rome’s southern outskirts, which in 2012 opened a “Garden of Angels,” over 700 square yards dedicated to the burial of children who were never born — either because of miscarriages or due to medical procedures, including abortion.
People must choose: path toward holiness or nothing, pope says
- Nov 1, 2018
Saints are not just the well-known men, women and young people on the liturgical calendar, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints.
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