When the world shut down last year because of the pandemic, the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton decided it was time to reach outward. The question was how -- when, for a time, people ...
Pope Francis has called for a global prayer marathon for the entire month of May, praying for the end to the pandemic. "The initiative will involve in a special way all shrines in the world" in ...
Father Paul Shovelain, pastor of St. John the Baptist in New Brighton, Minnesota, received the alert about a 7 p.m. curfew on his cellphone April 12 after civil unrest in wake of the police-involved death ...
“Our prayers are like oxygen to us,” said Father Yaroslav Koval, a Ukrainian priest in Pittsburg. “Without oxygen, we cannot live. Without prayer, we cannot have a spiritual life.” Father Koval, other clergy and religious ...
In the first of two parts on “How to Pray,” Lenny DeLorenzo writes in his latest Letter to a Young Catholic, that we need to approach God as beggars. He writes: “We are in need ...
OSV managing editor Scott Warden explores Pope Francis’ recently concluded series of catechetical talks on prayer, and he makes a resolution that during the Easter season, he will reflect on the pope’s wisdom to help ...
Cardinal Charles Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, set May 23-30 as a week of prayer for China, reported ucanews.com. In 2007, then-Pope Benedict XVI published his letter to Catholics in China and ...
The Council of European Bishops' Conferences announced the launch of a prayer network during Lent to pray for the victims of COVID-19 and for the families of those who died of the coronavirus. The council, known ...
St. Angela of Foligno said that prayer is the “School of Divine Love,” the place where we learn how to love God. It is here that our loving — or at least our best attempts ...
Prayer makes every day better, even the most difficult days, Pope Francis said. Prayer transforms a person's day "into grace, or better, it transforms us: it appeases anger, sustains love, multiplies joy, instills the strength to ...
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