As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were […]
Young people at a July 14, 2023, sendoff Mass for Chilean Catholic college students ahead of their winter break missionary work. / Credit: Catholic University of Chile
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 19, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
One thousand student volunt… […]
When my brother Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J. visited me not long ago at the mission parish here in Togo, West Africa, where I’ve served for the past seventeen years as a priest on loan from […]
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The distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the […]
Editor’s note: This interview was originally posted on January 23, 2015. Pope Francis recently announced his intention to canonize Spanish padre, Blessed Junípero Serra Ferrer, O.F.M. (1713-84) when he visits the United States this fall. […]
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