Living in Peru for nearly two decades profoundly shaped Robert Prevost's path to the papacy. As a missionary, parish priest and later as bishop in northern Peru he ministered to the poor, denounced the excesses of power and lobbied for…
Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II). Readings for the feria Readings for the memorial These are the readings for the memorial 25. And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26. If any man come to me,…
I am often told this by my neighbors. However, believers who live a little further away say things like this to me: “Living alone in the mountains, you must have a lot of free time.” So, am I busy, or…
A visit of 100 Vietnamese religious sisters to a Buddhist monastery sparked controversy following the publication of photographs of them offering incense and meditating before a statue of Buddha. “Good subjective intentions are not sufficient to justify an action that is…
Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life,…
Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming Latin America tour will end in the country where he spent two decades as a missionary and bishop (OSV News) — On Aug. 9, 1991, two young Polish missionaries were killed by Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrillas after refusing…
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 04 November 2026 1:50 am WAT Heaven is not reserved for Christians alone but is open to all who live according to God’s will, demonstrate genuine love and practise the virtues of humility, kindness and honesty, a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr.
“He’s right out of Francis’s playbook,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on U.S. Catholics. “He ticks off all the boxes of a future pope: a pastoral heart, managerial…
Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Journey on November 6-17 will take him to three countries that together recorded nearly 77 million baptized Catholics in 2024. Figures compiled by the Vatican’s Central Office of Church Statistics, drawn from the Church’s Statistical Yearbook, trace developments from…
This story was produced through a partnership with Visit Dubois County Sister Rosa Lee Koch likes to remember those moments of prayer that occurred in the monastery gift shop when she managed it. There, among displays of crucifixes, ceramic sculptures,…
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