Category: Church

May 27, 2022

Holy Family College Tangram Competition

Congratulations to the Senior Primary winners of Holy Family College’s first-ever Tangram competition! A tangram is a Chinese geometrical puzzle of a square that is cut up...

Church / Pope Francis / Prayer / Rosary

May 27, 2022

Pope, with Ukrainian families, to lead Rosary for Peace May 31

By CNS – Pope Francis and Ukrainian families in Rome will gather on May 31 before a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, to recite the rosary...

Abortion / Church / Magliano

May 27, 2022

Abortion’s Brutal Hidden Truth

During one of the many nonviolent, prayerful pro-life/anti-abortion demonstrations I participated in, a woman stopped her car, got out, pointed to the large gruesome poster I was...

Church / Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture

May 27, 2022

Ascension of the Lord Reflection: Bearing The Weight Of Time

Franciscan Reflections From The Hermitage – Ascension of the Lord – (Luke 24:46-53) See all the weight of time that bears down upon us, that sluggishness that...

Church / Eucharist

May 26, 2022

The Eucharist is a Reminder that Christ Has Never Abandoned Us

By CNS – In the Gospel reading for Ascension Sunday, St Luke recounts the moments before and after Christ rose to heaven to sit at the right...

Christian Living / Church / Pope Francis

May 25, 2022

Pope: Elders Rich in Wisdom and Humour Do So Much Good for the Young

By Cindy Wooden – Seeing all the violence and injustice in the world, people easily grow disillusioned and wonder about the meaning of life, but Christians must...

Church / Crisis / Pope Francis / Prayer

May 25, 2022

Pope Prays for Texas Shooting Victims, Calls for Stricter Gun Laws

By Cindy Wooden – Saying his heart was broken at the news of at least 19 children and two adults being shot and killed at a Texas...

Church / Mass readings

May 25, 2022

Mass Readings: 29 May – 5 June, 2022

Liturgical Calendar Year C – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday May 29, Ascension of the Lord Acts 1:1-11/ Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 / Heb 9:24-28; 10:19-23 or...

Church

May 25, 2022

Returning from Ukraine, Polish archbishop urges Vatican to revise attitude

By CNS – The president of the Polish bishops’ conference criticised the Vatican’s “naive and utopian” attitude to the war in Ukraine and urged Rome to show...

Church

May 25, 2022

Cardinal Zen charged with improperly registering fund, pleads not guilty

By CNS – Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and several others pleaded not guilty in a Hong Kong court to charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct...