In his seven visits to America during his papacy, St. John Paul II often shared his mastery of the nation’s foundational documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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God came to my house today. Those were the words spoken by a young boy named Cesar as he looked at me. I did not hear them myself; another missionary later shared them with me. Cesar, perhaps 10 years old, has cerebral palsy. He comes from a poor yet deeply loving family living in the heart of Mexico.
“Dios vino a mi casa hoy”. Esas fueron las palabras de un niño mexicano llamado César, mientras me miraba. Yo no las escuché personalmente. Otro misionero me las compartió después. César, de unos diez años quizá, tiene parálisis cerebral. Proviene de una familia pobre, pero profundamente amorosa, que vive en Puebla, en la región centro-oriente de México.
Su casa era sencilla, pero hermosa en su dignidad. En las paredes colgaban un crucifijo y una imagen de la Última Cena. A su alrededor había familiares que se turnaban para cuidarlo. Ellos brindaban ayuda y César les ofrecía algo igual de importante: compañía, alegría y sonrisas.
13 Jul: Using ‘multi-province’ model, Jesuits will create 2 novitiates from its 5 current novitiates
The Society of Jesus — commonly known as the Jesuits — in the United States and Canada will bring together its five current novitiates spread throughout the continent into two new novitiates starting in 2028, with one of the new novitiates to be located in Detroit.
When the 8:21 a.m. train left Rome’s Termini Station to Castel Gandolfo July 12, people packed like sardines into the regional cars. While two or three passengers got off at stations along the way, most disembarked at Castel Gandolfo and headed up the hill to see Pope Leo XIV during the Sunday Angelus prayer — the first this summer to be said from his lakeview residence.
On the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Estefania received a visit that she felt came to answer her prayers. On May 13, missionaries from Dallas arrived at her home in southwest Puebla, Mexico, bringing a brand-new wheelchair for her son, Omar, along sandy, gravel roads.
FRISCO— Desde las primeras horas de haber sucedido los fuertes terremotos que sacudieron a Venezuela hace poco menos de un mes, Pedro y Mileza Álvarez buscaron como ayudar, sintiendo el abrigo de su comunidad parroquial en la Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís en Frisco.
El 24 de junio pasado dos grandes terremotos afectaron el noroeste y el centro de Venezuela, dejando un saldo de 4,490 personas muertas, 16,700 heridos y decenas de miles de desaparecidos.
En el día de la Virgen de Fátima, Estefania* recibió una visita que sintió como la respuesta a sus oraciones. El 13 de mayo pasado, un grupo de misioneros de Dallas llegaron a su casa al suroeste del centro de la ciudad de Puebla, en México, empujando una silla de ruedas por caminos de arena y gravilla, como regalo para su hijo Omar*.
El chico de 11 años es uno de los 140,000 niños que reciben asistencia terapéutica en el Centro de Rehabilitación e Inclusión Infantil (CRIT) de Puebla.
“American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story,” scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide Aug. 26-27, tells the story of Blessed Stanley Rother through those who knew him — parishioners, catechists, and family members — as well as those currently involved in his cause for canonization.
Preparations are underway in Norway to open a canonization cause for the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset, Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo announced July 8.