Religious leaders offer prayers before start of UN General Assembly
By Beth Griffin – In the face of widespread evidence of humanity’s dark side, speakers a prayer service on September...
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Pope: Christianity without the cross is sterile
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Falling into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads...
Pope: Consecrated life is not doomed to die out
By Carol Glatz – Consecrated life is not doomed to die out, Pope Francis told a group of Discalced Carmelites....
Pope to Slovak Jews: Horrors of Holocaust must not be forgotten
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to...
Pope Urges Slovak Church and Government to Put People First
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Slovakia’s tradition of hospitality along with its witness of faith amid persecution must be at...
Pope Francis says Pope Benedict rightly warned against not respecting life
Pope Francis praised his predecessor’s courage in denouncing the danger of people no longer respecting or understanding the sacredness of...
Pope at Eucharistic Congress: Eucharist Heals from Idolatry of Self
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Spending time in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament can heal Christians from a self-absorbed religiosity...
9/11 anniversary renews call of sainthood for Franciscan priest
By Mark Pattison – The 20th-anniversary remembrances of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States is renewing a canonisation...
Amid so much division, the memory of 9/11 can remind us to return to basics
Anyone who lived through the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 – now astoundingly a full two decades ago –...
