Wislaire Joseph
Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish’s annual Lenten retreat from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST on March 7, is a call to the well.
As Fr. Eric Rodrigues celebrated a recent baptism at Holy Name Parish, he was struck by a quiet realization as the sacramental celebration concluded.
Catholic and Christian organizations are expressing appreciation for the federal government’s willingness to refine Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, to remedy religious freedom concerns, but want this spirit more explicitly conveyed in the text of the legislation.
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The Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon issued a statement in which they called "for an immediate halt to the spiral of violence" currently taking place in the Middle East.
Catholic bishops in Sudan and South Sudan have expressed distress at the brutal killing of nearly 178 people in northern South Sudan on March 2.
Legendary football coach Lou Holtz died March 4 in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 89, surrounded by his family. Holtz is best remembered for his 11 seasons in South Bend, where he revitalized the Notre Dame football program.
The Vatican secretary of state appealed for peace and diplomacy on the fifth day of the U.S. and Israel-Iran war, warning that recognition of any country's right to wage "preventive war" according to their own criteria would risk the world "being set ablaze."
More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held in 1960 in Rome, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with athletes living with disabilities.
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Pope Leo XIV prayed for world leaders to “abandon projects of death” in a video message released by the Vatican on March 5 calling on people around the world to pray for peace.
A Synod on Synodality study group has recommended the creation of a new “Pontifical Commission for Digital Culture and New Technologies” in the first of 15 synod study group reports expected in the coming weeks.
The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo's "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as "a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic."
