To love and to cherish: Bringing mercy into marriage February 6, 2024By Bill Dodds OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life If love is the engine that drives a marriage, mercy is the oil that keeps its many parts running smoothly.
Six must-watch marriage movies February 6, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, Movie & Television Reviews Hollywood seems to find more drama in decaying marriages and divorce than in marital stability. Yet memorable films portraying successful marriages have appeared over the years.
Ignorance breeds fear, fear breeds intolerance, pope tells students February 6, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Love and seek the truth, which requires being open to listening to others and sharing in dialogue, Pope Francis told students.
God is close, compassionate, not cold, distant, pope says February 5, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Christians must let go of the God they think they know and convert every day to the God Jesus presents in the Gospel — the God who is the father of love and compassion, Pope Francis said.
300 parish priests to participate in Vatican synod meeting, meet with pope February 5, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Three hundred parish priests from all over the world will come to Rome and make their contribution to the ongoing Synod of Bishops on synodality by sharing their experiences of parish life, the Vatican said.
Pope tells seminarians to put the Eucharist at the center of formation February 5, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News If seminarians want to advance in their discernment and practice of religious life they must place the Eucharist at the center of their formation, Pope Francis wrote.
Pope, cardinals continue discussion of role of women in the church February 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News With the help of a woman Anglican bishop, a Salesian sister and a consecrated virgin, Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals devoted the first morning of their February meeting “to deepening their reflection, begun last December, on the role of women in the church,” the Vatican press office said.
Television Review: ‘For the Sake of the Gospel’ February 5, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews A little-known chapter of American religious history is explored in the enlightening documentary, “For the Sake of the Gospel.” Produced by the Diocese of Savannah, and made possible by the Catholic Communications Campaign, the film will air on EWTN Monday, Feb. 5, 5:30-6 p.m. EST.
Pope hopes Lunar New Year celebrations will foster friendship, peace February 5, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News – Pope Francis expressed his hopes that Lunar New Year celebrations would offer opportunities for people to experience warm friendships and to show care.
Northern Ireland has Catholic leading its government for the first time in history February 5, 2024By Michael Kelly OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Michelle O’Neill of the Sinn Féin party is the first Catholic to head the region’s government.
Pope, in letter to Jews in Israel, condemns antisemitism as a sin February 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News In a letter addressed to “my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel,” Pope Francis expressed his heartbreak at the violence unleashed by the Hamas attack on Israel in October and he repeated the Catholic Church’s condemnation of all forms of antisemitism and anti-Judaism.
Changing words in sacraments can make them invalid, dicastery warns February 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments When a priest or other minister changes the words, gestures or material prescribed for the celebration of the sacraments, he can “rob” the faithful of what they deserve and make the sacrament invalid, the dicastery said in a note published Feb. 3.
