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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...
Charlene Marie Richard died at age 12 in Louisiana 65 years ago. Since then, more than 1,600 miracles through her intercession have been reported…..
14 hours ago 14 hours ago Jim Valois holds a B.A. in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. His articles and book reviews have been featured in The Wanderer Newspaper, Soul Magazine (World Apostolate of Fatima, USA), and Catholic Life Magazine. He is the author of Our Lady’s Prophecies and reverted to the Catholic faith from Evangelicalism while studying at Franciscan Universit...
Pope Francis Arrives in East Timor, Asia’s Youngest and Most Catholic Country…
By Courtney Mares Dili, East Timor, Sep 9, 2024 / 11:06 am Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the Immaculate Conception, heavenly patroness invoked under the title of ‘Virgem de Aitara,’” Pope Francis said at the welcome ceremony at the Pres...
What is Holy Matrimony — and why should it be protected as the primordial sacrament?
[embedded content] Today, Dr. Michael Dauphinais is joined by John Clark, author, political speech writer, and columnist for the National Catholic Register, to discuss the importance of recognizing the sacramentality of marriage. They address themes such as the primary purpose of marriage, its indissolubility, and how it was instituted. In their conversation, they also explore the insights from Jo...
My Big Fat Spanish Wedding…
My big fat Spanish wedding Skip to content Last week, at a parish just a few miles north of Madrid, 18 couples celebrated the first ‘macro-wedding’ in Spain. The macro-wedding at San Sebastián Mártir Parish. Credit: Archdiocese of Madrid Subscribe now The couples, who had all been cohabiting for at least five years, entered into the relationship of marriage on August 29, after months of preparatio...
Pope Francis in Papua New Guinea: ‘Put Love Before Superstition and Fear’…
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Sep 8, 2024 / 09:10 am Pope Francis on Sunday encouraged Catholics in a remote town in Papua New Guinea to continue to be missionaries where they live, working together to replace superstition and fear with love. After celebrating Mass in Port Moresby on Sept. 8, the pope traveled 620 miles by air to Vanimo, a coastal town on a peninsula in northwest Papua New Gu...
Mother Teresa Feared ‘Big Crowds’ — But She Loved Telling Them About the Eucharist…
The mission and work of Mother Teresa can be seen in her profound Eucharistic life. As the 10th National Eucharistic Congress concluded recently in Indianapolis, with prayers for a new Pentecost in the U.S. Church, it’s a good time to look back at Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her participation in the 41st International Congress in Philadelphia in 1976. What was her understanding of the unitive an...
The Vatican has appointed me the new national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the U.S…
Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the 27th anniversary of the death and birth into eternal life of St. Teresa of Calcutta, the great foundress of the Missionaries of Charity. She once said to her religious sisters, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. God still loves the world and sends you and me to be his love.” That sums up not just the charism of the Missionarie...
The Straits Times: Indonesian police detain seven in a failed plot to attack Pope Francis…
JAKARTA – The Indonesian police have detained seven people in a failed plot to attack Pope Francis, who wrapped up the first leg of his 12-day Asia-Pacific tour in the archipelago on Sept 6. A total of seven people were detained, mostly on Sept 2 and 3, in Jakarta, in the outlying cities of Bogor and Bekasi, West Sumatra province and Bangka Belitung Islands province, according to the media stateme...
The New Maori Queen in New Zealand is Catholic…
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Sep 7, 2024 / 08:00 am The Maori people, the Indigenous population of mainland New Zealand, have crowned a new queen after the death of their king — and she’s Catholic. King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII died on Aug. 30 at the age of 69. His death came days after his 18th anniversary as king of the Kingitanga, also known as the Maori King Movement, founde...
