Pope: Schizoid World Brags it’s Free while Chained to Greed
Christian freedom is being free from worldly ambition, fashion and passion and being open to God’s will, Pope Francis said....
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Imagine a Church Without The Southern Cross…
The past few years have been rough on The Southern Cross, as it has been on most newspapers throughout the world.
Pope: Leave Mass Praising God, Not Gossiping About Others!
The final words at Mass – “Go in peace” – are an invitation to Christians to proclaim God’s blessings through their lives, not an opportunity to go outside and speak ill of others, Pope Francis said
To Try and Love is to Know God
As an old man looking back over his life as a Christian, as someone who had walked and talked with Jesus, had listened to him preaching, seen him die and had experienced him as risen again — as he approached death, the apostle John found himself writing increasingly about the centrality of love.
Pope Francis: Urbi et Orbi Message 2018
Jesus is risen from the dead! This message resounds in the Church the world over, along with the singing of the Alleluia: Jesus is Lord; the Father has raised him and he lives forever in our midst.
How Christ Frees Slaves
This Holy Week we will hear a lot about redemption and how Christ’s death on the cross redeemed mankind. In our modern usage, to redeem something means “to buy it back”; and in Holy Week we can use that idea.
Pope: Present in the Eucharist, Jesus Transforms those who Receive Him
Despite the chill and gusts of wind in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis welcomed the beginning of spring with an...
Pope: It Takes More than One ‘Our Father’ to Ask for God’s Help
Praying for God’s intervention takes courage, dogged persistence and patience, said Pope Francis. “If I want the Lord to listen to what I am asking him, I have to go, and go and go – knock on the door and knock on God’s heart
John Paul II: The Pope of Human Rights
He is acknowledged as a great leader in Christian history — a global leader, a world statesman. The most travelled pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church was hailed for his human rights and political activism. St John Paul II was a peacemaker.
