Presiding over Mass for the Assumption of Mary, which was attended by thousands in Daejeon, South Korea’s packed World Cup Stadium, Pope Francis encouraged those present to resist materialism and reminded them, “Like Mary our […]
Today, on the first day of his five-day trip to South Korea, Pope Francis delivered an address to Korean civil leaders and politicians at the Blue House in Seoul, the residence of Korean President Park […]
The same day that Pope Francis made an appeal to the international community to help persecuted and displaced Iraqis, the White House confirmed that the US will be sending humanitarian aid to those driven from […]
Today the Vatican confirmed the authenticity of a letter on the “sign of peace” that was released by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and appeared on the website of the Spanish bishops’ […]
The video below has been making the rounds—it is a segment from the “Today Show” highlighting some of the latest research on the development of unborn babies. According to the piece, “The Secret Lives of […]
Last Sunday the New York Times ran an interview with Dean Koontz, in which the prolific novelist and Catholic discussed some of his favorite books and authors. Koontz is asked about his favorite novelists (these […]
The Sudanese Christian woman who was imprisoned and sentenced to death for apostasy arrived safely in Italy today with her husband and two young children, and met with Pope Francis at his Casa Santa Marta […]
As Christians flee Northern Iraq to escape persecution by Islamic extremists, the BBC reports that the 1,700-year-old Mar Behnam monastery, near Mosul, has been seized by ISIS forces and the community of monks who lived […]
Warning that “Iraq will come face to face with human, civil, and historic catastrophe,” Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has written a letter “to the people of conscience and good will in Iraq and the […]
The family of prominent Catholic author Stratford Caldecott has announced that he died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 60. From the UK Catholic Herald: He was the G K Chesterton Research Fellow […]
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