On March 27, seventh and eighth graders from St. Mark Catholic School put their faith into action in a big way: helping make a wish come true for 7-year-old Chloe Zai, a cancer patient with a love for Ariel, her favorite Disney princess.
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The funeral Mass of Pope Francis will be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced.
With the death of Pope Francis, the April 27 canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis was postponed and the Mass scheduled for that day will be a memorial Mass, the Vatican said.
The idea of becoming a nurse has been in Sharon Robinson’s head almost her whole life. The St. Ann Catholic Church parishioner can recall those early days, sitting next to her mother and watching a medical show; her mother would see a nurse on screen and remark to her daughter, “You’re going to be a nurse.” Call it a mother’s intuition: She was right.
Thousands of Catholics across the country will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena inspired by St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian doctor, wife, and mother who sacrificed her own life for the life of her child.
Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame hosted the 13th annual Dallas Area Women’s Leadership Luncheon March 20 at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch, attracting more than 300 attendees.
The Vatican inaugurated a nursery school for children of Vatican employees April 14.
The Gospel contains a great message of hope, “because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!” said the text for Pope Francis’ weekly general audience.
Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to recover his physical strength, the Vatican press office said, but he also is increasing the number of private meetings he is holding with the heads of Vatican offices.