The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
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As a retired hospice nurse, Mary Ellen Pereyra cannot count the number of hands she held and prayers she lifted, not only for the injured and ill patients that came to her for care but also for an often-overlooked group: the caregivers. From filling medications to scheduling appointments, the work of caregivers is crucial but often hidden, the parishioner of Holy Family Catholic Church in Van Alstyne said — a fact that she, as a longtime caregiver herself, knows personally.
In a fractured world threatened by war, Christians can strengthen their bonds of unity to show the world that peace is possible, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said.
Life is a journey that requires trust and reliance on Jesus, who sometimes asks his disciples to leave everything behind, Pope Leo XIV said.
Catholics across the Middle East are reeling with shock and sorrow, and responding with prayer, amid joint strikes Israeli and U.S. forces launched on Iran Feb. 28, plunging the region into war.
The Catholic Pro-Life Community has elected former Project Gabriel director Patty Sherrod as its Father Edward Robinson, O.P., Pro-Life Person of the Year.
Gabriel is not the first messenger of the LORD to greet someone with the phrase “The LORD is with you” (Lk 1:28). An anonymous angel hails Gideon, a young man from a poor and insignificant family, as the lad desperately hides his family’s wheat harvest from the marauding Midianites: “The LORD is with you, you mighty warrior!” (Jgs 6:12).
IRVING– Sintiéndose orgullosa, Verónica Franco llegó puntual el pasado 1 de febrero a la misa pública que se ofreció en el Seminario de la Santísima Trinidad (HTS em inglés), donde el Grupos Guadalupanos de la Diócesis de Dallas, entregaron una donación que vienen haciendo desde hace dos décadas en apoyo a las vocaciones sacerdotales.
Franco, que coordina el Grupo Guadalupano en su parroquia, la Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel en Grand Prairie y es originaria de Jalisco, México, hizo parte de unos 70 miembros de los Grupos Guadalupanos que asistieron ese día a HTS.
La frase con la que la Iglesia inaugura la Cuaresma es —”Conviértete y cree en el Evangelio”— contiene en sí misma todo el sentido de este tiempo litúrgico y puede iluminar de manera muy concreta los sacrificios que los jóvenes están llamados a vivir.
Conviértete significa cambiar de dirección, revisar el rumbo de la propia vida. Por eso, el primer paso cuaresmal no es externo, sino interior: atreverse a mirar a la dirección propia del corazón.
A statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, will be put in a public park on Chicago’s Near West Side. It will replace a Christopher Columbus statue that was removed during the pandemic.