Archive for October 28, 2014

Martin Baani: "I want to stay. I don’t want to run away from the problem." ?w=200&h=150

Martin Baani: the Iraqi seminarian who will not leave his people

Bombs are falling and the sound of the explosion is sending shock and fear into the hearts of the people.... Read more

Icon of St. John Paul II in Santa Maria Church (Sant'Egidio community) in Rome. ?w=200&h=150

By Adelaide Mena

John Paul II 'taught me how to be a person,' secretary recounts

Saint John Paul II’s deep love for the world and for God continues to inspire people today to draw near... Read more

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Asia Bibi to Pope Francis: Pray for me, your daughter

A Catholic woman condemned to death in Pakistan for allegedly violating the country's blasphemy law has asked Pope Francis for... Read more

Pope Francis celebrates the opening Mass of the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family in St. Peter's Basilica, Oct. 5, 2014. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Are you Catholic? Then stay in the Church, Pope says

Pope Francis said that those waiting at the threshold of the Church without going inside are not true members of... Read more

St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia closed after eight staff members died of Ebola. Photo courtesy of Caritas Internationalis.?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Ebola orphans and other woes: What the Church in West Africa faces

A health adviser for a top global Catholic relief agency stressed the Church's key efforts on the Ebola front in... Read more

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Kyiv-Halych, at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2014. ?w=200&h=150

Ukrainian dignity and determination, as a nation votes for change

Travelling to Ukraine as the country prepared to go to the polls Oct. 26, Neville Kyrke-Smith of Aid to the... Read more

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When asked what Christians can do outside the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa responded: “Pray and support. Support the Christian community as much as they can.”

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Pope Francis calls Holy Family Church in Gaza every day

Pope Francis meets with the College of Cardinals on July 1, 2024.

What does it mean that almost half of the new cardinals will be from religious orders?

Left to right: Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe, Archbishop Fernando Chomali, Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas, and Bishop Mykola Bychok, CSsR, will be made cardinals in a consistory on Dec. 7, 2024.

New cardinals emphasize Church unity, evangelization ahead of consistory

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White House backs off enforcing underage contraceptive rule in Texas

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8 Republican senators sign letter opposing military draft for women in defense proposal

An earthquake was recorded off the coast of northern California near the town of Eureka on Dec. 5, 2024.

Northern California parish evacuates after earthquake, tsunami warning

Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku of Sudan's El Obeid Diocese.

Catholic bishop in Sudan seriously injured in assault by Rapid Forces

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson on “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” Dec. 5, 2024, said he originally wrote a book “three times” as long as his latest, “We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine,” and said that there’s “another book coming that includes the story of Job and the and the story of the Passion.”

Jordan Peterson: The Bible is a collection of ‘world-ordering’ ideas

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament along route of Chartres pilgrimage June 9, 2019.

Vatican could reportedly restrict Latin Mass for Chartres pilgrimage, French media claims

The U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

New Mexico bishops come out strongly against mass deportations

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