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Sometimes it can take decades or even centuries for the Catholic Church to acknowledge that a holy man or woman should be considered a saint. While Pope Saint John Paul II made the promotion of [...]

As a practicing Catholic who church hopped for so many years only to make his peace with the church up the street, I would suggest a third option, which lies somewhere in the middle.

The human rights advocate has been convicted and sentenced multiple times since 2020. [...]

The pontiff is expected to travel to Africa in April, visit Peru later this year, and make a summer stop in Spain. [...]

Pope Leo acknowledged that many people today feel worthless. “It is as if their light has been hidden.” But, he said before leading the midday Angelus, Jesus proclaims to us a God “who will never throw us away, a Father who cares for our names and our uniqueness.” “Every wound, even the deepest, will be healed Read More…

Does your light feel hidden? Pope’s thoughts

On this feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, which is also Super Bowl Sunday, and Winter Olympics season, the US bishops noted a tragic element of big sporting events: an increase in human trafficking. Pope Leo also noted that this is the World Day to focus attention on this modern day slavery, and how all are Read More…

Trafficking, Super Bowl, nuns, St. Josephine, and dignity

Quotes from the saints have long been a source of prayer and inspiration for Catholics. Consider Augustine’s words from his Confessions, “Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you” or St. Francis de Sales’ words from a letter, “Do not wish to be anything but what Read More…

8 Quotes the saints did NOT say

Vatican representatives are in the process of reviewing the life of Pedro Ballester, a British university student who died of cancer in 2018, to gauge whether his canonization cause should be opened. [...]

“Little Nellie” was a 4-year-old child from Cork, Ireland, whose piety and closeness to God led in part to the lowering of the age at which children could receive their first holy Communion. [...]

There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.