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Pope’s Sunday Angelus for 2nd Sunday of Lent: ‘Never Divert Your Eyes From the Light of Jesus’…
Angelus Angelus Dómini nuntiávit Mariæ.Et concépit de Spíritu Sancto.Ave Maria… Ecce ancílla Dómini.Fiat mihi secúndum verbum tuum.Ave Maria… Et Verbum caro factum est.Et habitávit in nobis.Ave Maria… Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei génetrix.Ut digni efficiámur promissiónibus Christi. Orémus.Grátiam tuam, quǽsumus, Dómine,méntibus nostris infunde;ut qui, Ángelo nuntiánte, Christi Fílii tui incarnatiónem cognóvimus, per passiónem eius et crucem, ad resurrectiónis glóriam perducámur. Per eúndem Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen. Gloria Patri… (ter)Requiem aeternam… Benedictio Apostolica seu Papalis Dominus vobiscum.Et cum spiritu tuo.Sit nomen Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus,Pa ter, et Fi lius, et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen. The Angelus Prayer The Angel of the Lord d...
Pope Francis Cancels Saturday Audiences Due to a ‘Mild Flu-Like Condition,’ Vatican Says…
By Courtney Mares Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 24, 2024 / 07:46 am Pope Francis canceled his public appearances on Saturday due to a mild flu, the Vatican has said. The Holy See Press Office released a short statement announcing the cancellation on Saturday morning without further details. “Due to a mild flu-like condition, as a precautionary measure, the pope has canceled the audiences scheduled for today,” the Feb. 24 statement said. The cancellation comes after Pope Francis concluded a five-day Lenten retreat at his Vatican residence in which all of his regular activities were suspended from the afternoon of Feb. 18 to Feb. 23. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums
Cardinal Dolan on St. Patrick’s Funeral: ‘We Don’t Do FBI Checks on People Who Want to Be Buried’…
Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, contacted by CNA on Wednesday said the archdiocese had no immediate comment on the Gentili supporters’ statement. Asked by email who decided to replace the funeral Mass with the shorter funeral service, Zwilling said the decision “was made by the priests at the cathedral after witnessing what was taking place.” A video of the service posted online last week shows that shortly after the procession down the aisle, the presider, Father Edward Dougherty, looking out into the crowd, said with a laugh: “Well, welcome to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Except on Easter Sunday, we don’t really have a crowd that is this well turned out, you know?” After a short delay, the crowd responded with more than 40 seconds of ...
Report: Cardinal Calls for ‘Permanent’ Dialogue with Freemasons…
MILAN, Italy — A cardinal taking part in a “historic” closed-door meeting on Friday between the heads of Italy’s Freemasonic lodges and senior Catholic Church leaders has called for a “permanent” dialogue to be opened with the secretive organization, despite masonry being long condemned by the Church. A 1983 document from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith stated Masonic principles “have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church.” And last November, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirmed that stance, quoting the 1983 document that “active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry.” Addressing the Milan meeting on the theme The Ca...
Pro-Life Advocates Fight Against Euthanasia Expansions Across Canada, Australia…
Other states in Australia permit doctors to initiate conversations about assisted suicide, Yuen noted, though the country’s federal euthanasia law imposes some barriers to the practice. “It’s a matter of years that we’ll go further down the slippery slope,” she said, “but the pro-life groups will push back as much as we can for the sanctity of life.” Paul Osborne, a spokesman for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, noted that “one of the most pressing issues at the moment in Australia is the push to allow doctors to undertake euthanasia-related consultations online and over the phone.” “The Church says this is abhorrent,” Osborne said, “and the Australian government at this stage agrees that it is a bridge too far.” More in Americas Osborne pointed to a document released by the bis...
Alabama Supreme Court Rules That Frozen Embryos Are Children Under State Law…
Alabama voters in 2018 approved a state constitutional amendment affirming “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children,” while in 2019 the state enacted a near-total ban on abortions, one that went fully into effect with the repeal of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The state high court’s ruling came following a lawsuit brought by several parents whose frozen embryos had been accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic. The plaintiffs had argued that the destruction fell under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. In the decision the justices cited, in part, the Bible, including passages from Genesis affirming the sanctity of human life, as well as commentary from Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. The justices in their ruling said the phrase “minor...
Pope’s Sunday Angelus: Lent Is a Time to ‘Encounter Wild Beasts and Angels’…
By Matthew Santucci Vatican City, Feb 18, 2024 / 10:30 am On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis focused his Angelus address on the temptation of Jesus in the desert to highlight that it is an invitation for us to enter the proverbial desert to come “in contact with the truth.” Observing that during the 40 days in the desert Christ was in the company of both “wild beasts and angels,” the pope reflected that when we enter this symbolic “inner wildness,” we too “encounter wild beasts and angels.” These wild beats assume a deeply symbolic meaning in our “spiritual life,” and so “we can think of them as the disordered passions that divide our heart, trying to take possession of it. They entice us, they seem seductive, but if we are not careful, we risk being torn apart by them,” the pope sa...
Irreverent Funeral Service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Trans Activist Sparks Outcry…
On X (formerly Twitter), CatholicVote described the service as a staged “mockery of the Christian faith INSIDE St. Patrick’s Cathedral” by trans activists. Others called for Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the Archdiocese of New York to respond to what they considered to be sacrilege. “Is Cardinal Dolan planning to make reparations and exorcise and consecrate the altar and nave?” said one X user, apparently in reference to steps the Diocese of Brooklyn took when a pop star performed an inappropriate music video in the sanctuary of a parish church. Many of the 1,000 in attendance wore drag and scanty outfits. At the foot of the altar stood an image of the Argentinian-born Gentili with a halo, surrounded by the Spanish words for “whore,” “transvestite,” “blessed,” and “mother.” More in US Trans a...
Archbishop of Milan to Take Part in ‘Historic’ Closed-Door Event With Italy’s Freemasons on Friday…
MILAN — The Archbishop of Milan surprised many Catholics with the news that he plans to take part in a seminar in the northern Italian city with the grand masters of Italy’s three Freemasonic lodges, despite the Church’s longstanding censure of Freemasonry. Archbishop Mario Delpini, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president emeritus of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, and Bishop Antonio Staglianò, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, will be among Church representatives attending the closed-door event on Friday to discuss The Catholic Church and Freemasonry. The Freemasons will be represented by Stefano Bisi, grand master of the Grand Orient of Italy, the country’s largest Freemasonic lodge, and leaders of two other national lodges: the Grand Lodge of Italy and the Grand ...
30 Christians Have Died in the Gaza Strip Since Outbreak of Israel-Hamas War, Says Aid to the Church in Need…
Though attributed to Israeli snipers, the Israel Defense Forces repeatedly denied culpability for the women’s deaths. In addition to the threat of violent conflict, a humanitarian crisis in the region has persisted over the course of the war. “Lack of fuel and electricity means that pumps no longer work, so the residents have to extract water manually from the wells,” ACN said. Meanwhile, “medical care has also reached critical levels” and even basic tasks such as charging cellphones have become difficult. ACN said it has worked with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem to “provide medicine and food as well as fund some medical procedures” for those caught in the conflict. Yet “the mass destruction of houses and infrastructure makes the future of the Christians in the region uncertain...
Pope Francis ‘Very Much in Favor’ of Women’s Diaconate, Says Italian Theologian…
In an interview with a Spanish-language daily newspaper, Salesian Sister Linda Pocher added that the issue is something the Holy See is working toward. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is “very much in favor” of a female diaconate and is looking to extend to all the baptized “some rights” that until recently belonged only to bishops, priests and religious, an Italian theologian has said. In a series of statements, Salesian Sister Linda Pocher said the issue of a female diaconate was brought up at a Feb. 5-7 meeting she attended of the Council of Cardinals, also called the “C9,” a nine-member body Pope Francis established in 2013 to advise him on Church governance and reform. “We already know that the Pope is very much in favor of the female diaconate, but it is still something that ...
Cancel-Culture Science: Medical Journal Withdraws Studies That Document Abortion-Pill Harm…
EDITORIAL: For the abortion lobby as a whole, ‘conflict-of-interest’ considerations can arise in only one direction. On Feb. 5, in a shocking display of intellectual cowardice, a supposedly impartial medical journal announced that it was withdrawing three studies it had earlier published documenting the medical injuries that occur among women who take the abortion pill. Why did Sage Publishing, which publishes a host of academic journals, instruct Health Services and Managerial Epidemiology to withdraw publication of these studies? It happened because a single abortion-rights activist complained about one of the three studies, triggering an investigation. The central “flaw” that he flagged is the fact that the study was conducted by scientific researchers who work for pro-life organization...
