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As Fires Continue to Burn, Australian Bishop Calls for Prayer, Support
As fires throughout parts of Australia continue to worsen, the Archbishop of Melbourne called for prayers and encouraged Catholics to donate to those in need.
Pope Francis: When We Do Not Worship God, We Worship Ourselves
On the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Pope Francis said worship of Christ reveals the true meaning of our journey of life, as it did for the magi in the Gospel.
Pope Francis: The Gospel is a Call to Holiness in Concrete Actions
The Gospel is more than a nice story – it is the concrete revelation of God’s plan for the world and calls people to holiness, Pope Francis said Sunday.
Solidarity, Subsidiarity Needed to Provide Medical Care to All, Pope Says
The principles of solidarity and subsidiarity should be used together to ensure everyone, including the person experiencing poverty, has access to suitable healthcare, Pope Francis said Friday.
Report: Over Past Decade, 170,000 Children Had Rights 'gravely violated'
The past decade saw troubling levels of violence against children, with some 45 children seeing their rights “gravely violated” each day during the 2010s, a new report from the United Nations said.
Cardinal Mueller: Church Crisis Comes from Abandoning God, Adapting to Culture
The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church - to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller Jan. 1.
Should Catholics Care about Poetry?
Do you remember the last poem you read, or heard?
How Going Online Might Help you Stop Watching Porn
Watching online videos leads many men to pornography addiction. But now one set of online videos aims to lead them out.
What People With Intellectual Disabilities Can Teach Us about Friendship
When French Catholic Jean Vanier brought two men with intellectual disabilities to live with him in his home, he did so more out of a sense of religious duty than anything else.
Farmers in Zimbabwe Facing Severe Droughts, Hunger Crisis, CRS Says
As severe drought conditions continue in Zimbabwe, close to 7 million people are facing food shortages, a Catholic aid agency warned this week.
Pope Francis Apologizes for Losing Patience with Woman Who Grabbed Him
Pope Francis apologized Wednesday for losing his patience with a woman who grabbed his arm in St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve.
Pope Francis: Honor the Dignity of Women for a Better World in 2020
Pope Francis began the new year with a call for the dignity of women to be honored -- not exploited for profit and pornography -- in 2020.
On New Year's Eve, Pope Francis Calls Listening An Act of Love
It is an act of love to spend time with others, to listen to them and their needs, and to try to see them as Christ sees them, Pope Francis said on New Year’s Eve.
Discerning in, and discerning out: What happens when seminarians leave?
Catholic journalists know that discernment stories are popular because they give readers hope. And they often follow a pattern: They usually include a “God moment” in which the subject, through a dramatic circumstance, hears the word of God and finds with sparkling clarity the call to become a cleric or religious. They end with ordination or follow final vows.
Cardinal Grech, renowned theologian, dies at age 94
Cardinal Prosper Grech, an internationally renowned theologian, died on Monday at the age of 94.
Pope Francis asks families to put down their phones on Holy Family feast
On the feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged families to get off their cell phones and talk to one another.
Exorcist: Temptation – not possession – is the most significant demonic activity
Though dramatic representations of demonic possessions, as seen in Hollywood, can make them appear to be the primary method of the devil, one Dominican priest and exorcist has warned that the greater and more common threat to a person’s salvation is the temptation to sin.
St. Stephen's martyrdom shows 'true meaning of Christmas,' Pope Francis says
The death of St. Stephen, the Church’s first martyr, teaches Catholics to renew their commitment to charity and self-gift, part of the meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said Thursday.
Pope prays for Philippines, struck by deadly Christmas Day typhoon
Pope Francis Thursday prayed for the people of the Philippines, who were hit Christmas Day by a typhoon which has killed more than a dozen people and caused extensive damage.
Pope Francis on Christmas: Christ's light is greater than the darkness of world's conflicts
On Christmas, Pope Francis prayed for Christ to bring light to the instability in Iraq, Lebanon, Venezuela, Yemen, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, and other parts of the world experiencing conflict.
