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22+ hour, 16+ min ago (9+ words) Planes Should Bring Peace Not War and Destruction'osservatoreromano. va...
Signs of Renewed Openness to Faith
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (734+ words) There is a tendency, when talking about religion in the West, to lapse into a kind of tired pessimism. The story is familiar: decline, disengagement, a steady drifting away from faith. It's a narrative repeated so often that it can…...
Promulgation of Decrees
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (272+ words) During the audience granted to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, on Monday, 23 March, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same Dicastery to promulgate the following decrees regarding: "the offer of life of the Servant…...
Preserving Our Human Capacity to Think
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (1566+ words) By Mariya Gabriel Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO For eighty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has placed the protection and promotion of the fundamental right to freedom of expression and access to information…...
Only United in Love Can We Overcome Constant Threats of War
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (207+ words) By Isabella H. de Carvalho Pope Leo highlighted the importance of memory and of living one's service as an act of love and service to all, in an address to members of the Military Ordinariate of Italy on Saturday, 7 March, on…...
From Ashes to Fire
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (723+ words) By Fr Edmund Power, OSB "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land ". With these words, the Christian poet T. S. Eliot opens his higgledy-piggledy masterpiece, the Wasteland, and among those words we hear echoes of "paschality, the…...
The Unfolding of Meaning
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (485+ words) By Jonathan Safran Foer Pope Leo XIV's message for the World Day of Social Communications feels less like a proclamation and more like a moment of moral clarity. It speaks quietly, but with the unmistakable steadiness of someone who understands…...
Telephone Conversation of Pope Leo XIV with the President of the State of Palestine
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (88+ words) osservatoreromano. va On Monday, 16 March, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received a telephone call from H. E. Mr Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, concerning the alarming developments in the conflict in the Middle East and the living conditions of…...
A Shepherd Who Accompanied the People Through Difficult Times
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (344+ words) The longest serving patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, died on Tuesday, 17 March, after being hospitalized earlier that day. During the funeral of the late Patriarch, held on Sunday, 22 March,…...
Rediscovering the Faith
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (278+ words) By Revd Deacon Eric Jeevaraj Archdiocese of Westminster " UK The number of new Catholics increased in the Archdiocese of Westminster this Easter. On Saturday, 21 February, Archbishop Richard Moth presided at the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at…...