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- Sep 20, 2020
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Three Roman vignettes from the peak of the summer doldrums
- Aug 26, 2020
Late August in Rome marks the apex of the summer doldrums, the last chance to get away before the press of the fall begins. Pretty much nothing happens in the city, and that very much includes the Vatican.
Pope makes mini-pilgrimage outside Vatican to pray for end of pandemic
- Mar 16, 2020
With Italy on lockdown and Rome streets almost deserted, Pope Francis left the Vatican March 15 in a mini-pilgrimage to an icon and to a crucifix associated with miraculous interventions to save the city and its people.
God often chooses ‘frail, fickle’ human beings for mission, bishop says
- Feb 6, 2020
The life of every Christian, and especially of every bishop, involves “a call, a response and a mission,” Bishop Michael W. Warfel of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, told his brother bishops from the Northwest.
‘Ad limina’ is time to remember Mary’s loving care, bishop says
- Jan 30, 2020
While an “ad limina” visit literally is to the “threshold” or tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the visit all bishops are required to make periodically to Rome also leads them to Mary.
Church must not just be a house, but a home for all, archbishop says
- Jan 23, 2020
The Catholic Church is not simply the house of God but a place that can be called “home sweet home” for all of God’s children, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio said.
In secularized culture, bishops must give bold witness, archbishop says
- Jan 14, 2020
Despite recent studies that indicate a rise in secularism, bishops must continue to give witness to God’s love by laying down their lives for their flocks, said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas.
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