The Vatican announced on December 8, 2020, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, that Pope Francis had established a special Year of St. Joseph, which ends on the same date in 2021. The pope also ...
As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday as a Church and a nation, it is an appropriate time to give thanks for the meal Christ has given to us every day in the Eucharist. Writer David ...
The decision by Pope Francis to add the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, to the universal liturgical calendar will, undoubtedly, prompt the publication of many commentaries and opinions, not to ...
In this, the final article of Our Sunday Visitor’s series “Foundations of the Faith,” the subject matter — appropriately — is the four last things as handed on by our Catholic faith: death, judgment, hell ...
Fifteen years ago, on Oct. 16, 2002, Pope St. John Paul II released his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (“The Rosary of the Virgin Mary”), which introduced to the Church a new set of mysteries ...
A Catholic chaplain, a priest, was carrying Communion to patients who were bedridden in a hospital. The priest had a list of Catholic patients who had requested communion. In one of the rooms, as he ...
The Year of Mercy promulgated by Pope Francis comes to a close on the feast of Christ the King (Nov. 20). The original announcement was made last year during a homily at a penance service ...
Pope Francis chose as the motto for the Year of Mercy the phrase, “Merciful like the Father” (Misericordiae Vultus, No. 14). He wants to encourage all of us who believe in God to share with ...
Walking down a city street, who has not encountered a homeless man sitting on a sidewalk and begging for alms? Blessed Frederic Ozanam (1813-53) witnessed such a scene every day as a student in Paris ...
“In order to live in one single act of perfect love, I offer myself as a victim of holocaust to your merciful love. Asking you to consume me incessantly, allowing the waves of infinite tenderness ...
