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Pope Francis to Singapore’s Catholics: Follow St. Francis Xavier in Spreading God’s Love…
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Sep 12, 2024 / 12:35 pm At Mass with approximately 50,000 Catholics in Singapore on Thursday, Pope Francis recalled the example of the great missionary to Asia, St. Francis Xavier, who responded with enthusiasm to the call to spread God’s love. The pontiff celebrated Mass in the Singapore National Stadium, a national landmark, on the last full day of his trip to ...
The March for Life in London shone a beam of light for a nation lost in fog of moral relativism…
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Ignoring God’s Warning Signs
“I long to encounter You in the midst of my circumstances. So I’ll look for signs of Your Presence as I walk along the path of Life. A grateful attitude opens both my heart and my eyes— enabling me to see You in myriad tiny details as well as in the big picture of my life. I need to slow down and take time to notice all Your blessings—thanking You for them and enjoying Your many gifts.” – Jesus Li...
The 5 Benefits of Voicing Gratitude
“Lord, instead of experiencing only a short- lived burst of gratitude, I want to learn to remain in an attitude of thankful Joy— letting my gratefulness spill over into the future.” – Jesus Listens, February 29th Years ago, when I was faced with the most difficult time in my life, the last thing I wanted to do was express gratitude. For what? I thought. I have nothing to be thankful for! Nothing. ...
Quito, a Whale Spy, and ‘Sensory Masses’…
Quito, a whale spy, and ‘sensory Masses’ Skip to content Pillar subscribers can listen to this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, Greetings from Quito, Ecuador, where I arrived last night to cover the International Eucharistic Congress, a week-long global pilgrimage event organized under the aegis of the creatively named Pontifical Committee for Eucharistic Congresses at...
Why did the CCHD amp up spending while contributions were dropping?
Why did the CCHD amp up spending while contributions were dropping? Skip to content The USCCB has released its audited financial statements for 2023, potentially shedding additional light on the recent administration of the CCHD, an anti-poverty program administered by the bishops conference which has at times attracted controversy. The headquarters of the USCCB in Washington, DC. Credit: Fr. Gaur...
Singapore Welcomes Pope Francis on Final Stage of 45th Apostolic Journey…
Pope Francis begins the fourth and final leg of his Apostolic Journey to Asia and Oceania, as the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore welcomes the Bishop of Rome to Changi Airport. By Claudia Torres – Singapore Pope Francis has begun the fourth and final leg of his 12-day Apostolic Journey in Asia and Oceania – the longest of his pontificate so far – which has taken him to Indonesia, Papua New...
Before He Voiced Darth Vader, Catholic Convert James Earl Jones Was a Wise Man…
In ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ James Earl Jones portrays Balthasar as driven by a delightful wonder of God and stars and galaxies far, far away. For as brilliant as the entire 1977 television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth is, the most creatively realized sequences by director Franco Zeffirelli are arguably the depiction of the infancy narratives. This includes the episode of the Magi played, in their own ...
Why Ross Douthat Has Become an Optimist About America’s Future…
America has had no shortage of pessimistic critiques in recent years. And with titles like Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics and The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success to his name, Ross Douthat has become something of a master of the genre. But at a Sept. 6 talk at the University of Notre Dame, the conservative Catholic commentator and New York Times columnis...
Thousands Gather in Remote Jungle for Celebration Honoring Father Arul Das, Catholic Priest Killed in Eastern India…
By Anto Akkara Bangalore, India, Sep 10, 2024 / 11:15 am More than 4,000 Catholics on Sept. 2 assembled in the remote Jamboni jungle to mark the 25-year observance of the death of 33-year-old Father Arul Das of the Balasore Diocese, who was shot and pierced with arrows in his thatched chapel-house during the early hours of Sept. 2, 1999. “Father Arul very closely followed the life of Jesus. Like J...
No, your parish is not ‘vibrant’…
By Phil Lawler ( bio – articles – email ) | Sep 04, 2024 Could we all please agree to stop using the adjective “vibrant” to describe a Catholic parish, diocese, or other faith community? My desktop dictionary (admittedly an antique, Webster’s New Collegiate, published in 1974) defines “vibrant” as “oscillating or pulsating rapidly”—something that is ordinarily done by inanimate objects...
Reading With a Second Friend: Pope Francis on Literature…
“On the Role of Literature in Formation” is perhaps Pope Francis’s best document of his pontificate. Short, sweet, and full of good lines quoted and written. And yet he remains a “second friend” to many of his flock because they see their own world in some fundamentally different ways than he does. Pope Francis’s pontificate has been, to put it mildly, controversial. His judgments—theological, adm...
