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Young Adults…in Mary’s Arms at Miraculous Medal Shrine
Please join the Miraculous Medal Shrine and fellow young adults for the First Friday praise and worship night.
On Care For Our Common Home ~ Laudato Si”
Come join us for this day of discussion, study and reflection based on Pope Francis' call to each of us to recognize the urgency of our environmental challenges and to embark on a new path that brings with it hope in our future.
Time to heal, restore unity, evangelize, pope tells Catholics in China
In a special message addressed "to the Catholics of China," Pope Francis said he hoped a recent Sino-Vatican agreement would help "restore full communion among all Chinese Catholics."
On plane, pope discusses sex abuse, corruption of cover-up, China pact
Returning to Rome from a trip to the Baltic nations, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church has grown in its understanding of clerical sexual abuse. He cited the Pennsylvania grand jury report, saying, "when the church began to understand (the crisis), it did all it could."
Band of friars and nuns from Brazil finds ways to feed LA’s homeless
After Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez invited the order to the city, four friars and four sisters have set out for Skid Row every weekend, in hopes that free sandwiches and bottled water will be the first step in lifting the city's homeless population out of poverty and despair.
As part of message to Catholics in China, pope offers prayer to Mary
As part of this message to Catholics in China and worldwide, published Sept. 26, Pope Francis offered the following prayer, inviting everyone to join him in invoking the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary.
God’s love in charity exists even in most secularized places, pope says
During times of freedom or persecution, the Gospel is needed to bring meaning, fullness and hope to life, Pope Francis said.
Victim assistance coordinators comfort in a behind-the-scenes ministry
Whether the call is from someone who is angry, embarrassed, unsure of what to do or needs a friendly ear, diocesan and eparchial victim assistance coordinators are the face of the church's response to victims of sexual abuse by a church worker -- clergy or otherwise.
Abuse crisis is like fire purifying church, says head of Canadian bishops
"When there is a fire, our first instinct is often to try to put it out to prevent damage," said Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec. "In this case, however, we may need to allow this fire to keep burning," he said.
Siena College sees edition of Saint John’s Bible igniting faith on campus
The work is the first handwritten and illustrated Bible of its scale created since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.