On Election Day, Catholic faithful across the nation are turning to prayer before — and after — heading to the polls Nov. 5, with many parishes and dioceses offering Holy Hours.
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The guiding principle of love extolled by Jesus cuts through confusion around how to uphold God’s commandments to humanity, Pope Francis said.
When Moses asks God to provide a name that he might share with the enslaved Israelites in Egypt, “God replied to Moses: ‘I am who I am.’ Then He added: ‘This is what you will tell the Israelites: I am has sent me to you.’ God spoke further to Moses: ‘This is what you will say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14-15).
A new documentary film, produced and directed by Dallas native Rich Hull, is a “love letter” to combat chaplains and the work they do—a story at the intersection of the chaos of war and the call to love.
In late October, while thousands gathered across the Polish capital to commemorate the 1984 kidnapping and brutal murder of Solidarity chaplain Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, patient work continued at the Jesuit order’s archive in Warsaw to document the fate of other communist-era victims.
Young people need “big-hearted educators” to guide them through the complexities of modernity, Pope Francis told leaders in Catholic education.
Members of the Synod of Bishops elected Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, and Bishop Alain Faubert of Valleyfield, Quebec, to be the North American members of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.
The closest thing the Church has to a learning certificate for new bishops is a weeklong formation program in Rome — sometimes referred to as the “baby bishops course” — where they spend time with one another, Vatican officials, and the pope himself.
Marilena Carrera, sirve como capellán católica de la Diócesis de Dallas en el Hospital Parkland. Cuidar de su padre enfermo al final de la vida, la motivó para entregar su servicio a esta misión.
The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the “sacrament of goodbye” for young people, who receive it and then do not come to Church again until they want to get married, Pope Francis said.