Archive for July 25, 2013

A rescue worker sifts through the crash scene outside of Santiago de Compostela, Spain on July 25, 2013. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images News.?w=200&h=150

Pope 'deeply moved' by train crash in Spain

Pope Francis is praying for the victims and families of the 77 people who have died in a train derailment... Read more

Rodrigo the umbrella seller waits for customers in the rain on July 24, 2013. Walter Sanchez Silva/CNA.?w=200&h=150

Unusual weather not dampening enthusiasm in Rio

Rio de Janeiro experienced another day of rain on Wednesday along with lower than normal temperatures, forcing World Youth Day... Read more

Fr. Federico Lombardi at the July 22 press conference at the WYD 2013 media center in Rio. Michelle Bauman/CNA.?w=200&h=150

Vatican spokesman: Pope's energy strikes us all

Despite jetlag, rainy weather and an intense schedule, Pope Francis is showing no sign of slowing down as he meets... Read more

Archbishop emeritus Vincent M. Concessao of Delhi gives a catechesis session at Our Lady of Mercy School July 24, 2013. Estefania Aguirre/CNA.?w=200&h=150

Archbishop tells pilgrims meeting Jesus changes your life

The archbishop emeritus of Delhi, India told English-speaking pilgrims during their first catechesis session of World Youth Day that an... Read more

Pope Francis addresses the community of Varginha July 25, 2013.?w=200&h=150

Pope in Rio slum: Solidarity with the poor is not optional

Speaking amid cheers in the soccer field of a Rio de Janeiro shanty town, Pope Francis urged people who are... Read more

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Open your hearts to faith, archbishop encourages Thai Catholics

Archbishop Paul Tschang In-Nam, the Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand, encouraged a large gathering of Thai Catholics to renew their lives... Read more

Pope Francis addresses World Youth Day pilgrims from his home country of Argentina on July 25, 2013. ?w=200&h=150

Pope to youth: shake things up, bring Church to the streets

Pope Francis told a gathering of some 30,000 youth from his homeland that they are to “make a mess,” shaking... Read more

Robert George speaking at the Catholic Information Center on Feb. 23 2012. ?w=200&h=150

Catholic thinker to head US religious freedom commission

Princeton law professor Robert P. George has been elected as chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, giving... Read more

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Over 1 million youth pray with Pope for Sophie

Pope Francis asked for a moment of silence for 21-year-old pilgrim Sophie Morinière, who was on her way to participate... Read more

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Location for World Youth Day vigil changed due to rain

After three days of rain in Rio de Janeiro, World Youth Day planners have decided to change the location of... Read more

Pope Francis at the official welcome ceremony of the 28th World Youth Day at Rio's Copacabana Beach, July 25, 2013. ?w=200&h=150

Faith radically transforms us, Pope tells young people

The virtue of faith “accomplishes a revolution” in the lives of believers, which brings our way of thinking and acting... Read more

Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, blesses a WYD pilgrim. ?w=200&h=150

Honduran cardinal says saints are a Christian's work of art

The Archbishop of Tegucigalpa encouraged young people to follow the path of sanctity during his World Youth Day catechesis July... Read more

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St. Benedict Church in Baltimore, Maryland (left) and St. Benedict Church in Richmond, Virginia.

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The interior of the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem. In the background, the most well-known depiction of Our Lady of the Milk. According to a Christian tradition dating back to the sixth century, the Virgin Mary was nursing the baby Jesus here, and when, in haste to flee to Egypt, she took him off her breast, a drop of milk fell to the ground, turning the stone completely white.

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Lee Edwares received the VOC Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, at the opening of the Victims of Communism Museum, June 2022. This medal is the highest honor from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which he co-founded in 1994.

Lee Edwards, Catholic historian of American conservatism, dies at 92   

Pope Francis greets artists and participants of the 2024 Vatican Christmas Concert in the Clementine Hall on Dec. 14, 2024.

Pope Francis calls on Vatican Christmas Concert artists to promote peace, reconciliation

Jack Traynor (next to child on first row) as a pilgrim to Lourdes in 1925, two years after his healing.

The healing of a Royal Navy sailor at Lourdes

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Detail of a 1964 West German postage stamp showing Father Alfred Delp.

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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior, which has programs for the disabled, elderly, and impoverished, argued caring for those in need is part of its religious mission.

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