Archive for July 29, 2016

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At Baseball Hall of Fame, Mets star thankful for Catholic faith

Mike Piazza, the newest inductee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, has given a shout-out to Pope Benedict XVI... Read more

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Japan knife attack shows disabled persons 'have to be protected'

Following Tuesday's mass killing at a care home in Japan for persons with mental disabilities, one of the country's bishops... Read more

Pope Francis prays at the Auschwitz concentration camp, July 29, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Ann Schneible

At Auschwitz, Pope prays for God's forgiveness

Pope Francis paid a solemn visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps on Friday, where over a million people... Read more

Pope Francis embraces a patient at Krakow's Prokocim University Pediatric Hospital, July 29, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Ann Schneible

The Pope's powerful words at a children's hospital in Poland

Pope Francis paid a visit to the patients of a children's hospital in Krakow on Friday, where he stressed the... Read more

Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil speaks at religious freedom panel during World Youth Day at the Mercy Centre in Krakow, July 27, 2016. Photo courtesy of Jaclyn Lippelmann/Archdiocese of Washington.?w=200&h=150

WYD panel discusses worldwide state of religious freedom

The day after a priest was brutally murdered in France, a panel at World Youth Day in Poland discussed the... Read more

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Francis' message to young Cubans: Dream of a better world

Pope Francis sent a video message to Cuban youth unable to attend World Youth Day on Friday, encouraging them to... Read more

Pope Francis leads the Stations of the Cross for World Youth Day at Krakow's Blonia Park, July 29, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

Are you suffering? Jesus is with you, Pope Francis says

The Way of the Cross shows Christ's embrace of everyone who hungers, suffers, and dies – and the imperative for... Read more

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By Ann Schneible

Heroism and sacrifice: The Catholic history of Auschwitz

Pope Francis sat quietly in one of Auschwitz's most ominous prison cells, praying in what had been the inhumane living... Read more

Pope Francis pays a solemn visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps on July 29, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

The cruelty of Auschwitz still continues, Pope tells youth

Speaking from the balcony of the bishop's palace in Krakow, Pope Francis told youth gathered below that the horror lived... Read more

The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Matt Hadro

What is the Democratic Party's 'progressive' vision of religious freedom?

As the 2016 Democratic Party platform insists on a “progressive” notion of religious freedom, what might that look like in... Read more

Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed while saying Mass by Islamic State terrorists July 26, 2016.?w=200&h=150

A 'cry of hope' after the death of Father Hamel

At a Mass said for the victims of Tuesday's church attack in France, the Archbishop of Paris appealed for hope... Read more

A number tattooed on the forearm of Lidia Maksimovic Bocarova, a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. ?w=200&h=150

By Kevin J. Jones,Alan Holdren

The story of a Holocaust survivor who encountered Pope Francis

A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp welcomed Pope Francis’ Friday visit and asked the world to remember the suffering... Read more

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St. Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio.

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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.

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