Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the Roman station church pilgrimage – an eight-week journey […]
D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971) differed from most clinicians of his generation by not rejecting his Christian upbringing. Unlike Freud’s famous (and jejune) dismissal of religion, Winnicott realized that images and notions of God come naturally to […]
For most across the Catholic world, today’s significance lies in relation to what comes tomorrow—the beginning of our Lenten fast on Ash Wednesday. As a result, it is a day known by many names. It […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally published in the February 2000 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, and was later posted on Ignatius Insight. The author, Brother Austin G. Murphy, O.S.B., has been Abbott […]
Vatican City, Feb 12, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics to practice charity in Lent this year by caring for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
In his message for Lent 2021, the pope asks people to “experience… […]
Denver Newsroom, Feb 12, 2021 / 12:57 am (CNA).- Catholic Relief Services is asking Catholics this Lent to remember those affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by participating in the annual CRS Rice Bowl campaign.“As the world continues to grapple… […]
Vatican City, Jan 20, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has asked members of the Roman Curia to make their own arrangements for a private retreat at the beginning of Lent this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The pope typically spends fi… […]
Dear Fathers, my brothers in Christ: On Easter Sunday evening, I received a text message from one of your number, a close friend whose message was short and to the point: “The strangest day of […]
Alarm over the spread of coronavirus has led the Italian government to place more than a dozen northern provinces—including Lombardy, which totals 16 million people with its city of Milan—under travel lock-down for three weeks. […]
“God spoke further to Moses: ‘Go and gather the elders of the Israelites, and tell them, The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and […]
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