1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (202+ words) Lourdes will provide a very different setting. More than 200,000 people are expected over the Pope’s brief stay, including about 150,000 during Sunday and almost 25,000 for the evening Marian procession. But the most delicate moment will be a private meeting with seven…...

34+ min ago   (197+ words) Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Sunday! Today’s Gospel speaks to us of forgiveness, which is a fundamental feature of the Christian life. Jesus taught and exemplified forgiveness even on the cross, where he prayed to the Father for his persecutors…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (380+ words) Buenos Aires has chosen to make the period leading up to the visit itself a time of spiritual preparation The meeting illustrates how closely the local organizers and the Vatican are coordinating the religious dimension of the journey. The Vatican…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (492+ words) The founder of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Office of Divine Worship is being remembered as a great teacher and theologian. A funeral Mass for the Rev. Gerard Broccolo, a retired priest and former associate pastor of St. James Parish in Arlington…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago   (297+ words) The Chicago-born pope made his first public comments to commemorate the anniversary, speaking in English at the end of his traditional Sunday noon blessing from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square. “Two days ago marked the 25th anniversary of the…...

53+ min ago   (175+ words) Rev. Frank McDevitt has been bestowed a new title within the church by Pope Leo XVI. On Friday, Frank Cardinal Leo of the Archdiocese of Toronto announced that McDevitt, a former pastor at St. Mary’s Parish in Barrie, Aurora’s Our Lady…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (1499+ words) On September 15, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Not many Catholics are familiar with the devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary, but it captures a unique side of spiritual life. Our Lady is the very…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (396+ words) VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Sunday Sept. 13 at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Sunday! Today’s Gospel speaks to us of forgiveness, which is a fundamental…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (298+ words) ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in his Sunday Angelus address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.” Speaking from the window of the Vatican’s…...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago   (543+ words) Forgiveness is essential; without it, we cannot live in peace. Only forgiveness sets us free and restores the light, the Pope said this Sunday. After reciting the Angelus, Leo XIV renewed his prayers for those who died and were injured…...