By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Complaining frequently and stewing over disappointments can easily become an obsession that blocks one’s view of Jesus’ presence in difficult situations, Pope Francis […]
This week’s issue covers the Easter solemnity from the Vatican to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Pope Francis has accepted a miracle of Sister Maria Teresa Bonzel, founder of […]
2nd Sunday of Easter Jn 20:19-31 The Acts of the Apostles supplies this weekend’s first reading. The first several chapters of Acts are fascinating since they so well depict the […]
I was driving my daughters to ballet class last Monday. At a red light we spotted an older couple coming out of a diner. The man and woman were elderly, appearing […]
For more Easter and Triduum photos visit the photo gallery. By Tim Johnson The theme of “light” pervades the Easter Vigil. From blessing the Easter fire on the plaza of […]
This coming Sunday concludes the Octave of Easter. Blessed John Paul II entitled this Second Sunday of Easter “Divine Mercy Sunday” when he canonized Saint Faustina in the Jubilee Year […]
By Brigid Curtis Ayer INDIANAPOLIS — School choice advocates experienced a major victory under the state capitol dome the final week of March as the Indiana Supreme Court rendered a […]
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With Jesus’ resurrection “love has triumphed, mercy has been victorious,” Pope Francis said in his first Easter message “urbi et orbi” (to the […]
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Lying prostrate on the floor before the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion. The […]
By Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) — An Italian priest who died in a Nazi concentration camp and two victims of Soviet-bloc regimes during the Cold War were among […]
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told young inmates that, just as Jesus came to help and serve others, he, too, was at their service as a […]
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis called on the world’s priests to bring the healing power of God’s grace to everyone in need, to stay close to […]
