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Mary Marrocco: Lent is an opportunity to go beyond the noise

Mary Marrocco: Lent is an opportunity to go beyond the noise

What’s the best way to wake a sleeper? Throw cold water? Tickle the feet or play loud music?

The cross is carried in procession during the Way of the Cross at World Youth Day in Blonia Park in Krakow, Poland, July 29, 2016.

Pope asks that young people write meditations for Way of the Cross

VATICAN – In light of this year's Synod of Bishops on young people, Pope Francis has asked that the Way of the Cross meditations be written by a group of students.
Msgr. Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI in 1978.

Miracles approved: Pope Paul VI, Romero to be declared saints

VATICAN – Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of Blesseds Paul VI and Oscar Romero.
Pope Francis celebrates Mass Feb. 16 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican.

Don't hold grudges; forgiveness comes from forgiving others, Pope says

VATICAN – Christians must let go of resentments and forgive those who have wronged them so that they may experience God's forgiveness, Pope Francis.
Pope Francis venerates a Marian image outside the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome in this May 26, 2016, file photo. The Pope has instituted a new Marian feast honoring Mary as mother of the church. It will be celebrated every year on the Monday after Pentecost.

Pope adds feast of Mary, Mother of the Church to universal calendar

VATICAN – Pope Francis has decreed that Latin-rite Catholics around the world will mark the feast of "the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church" on the Monday after Pentecost each year.
Vatican court charges former IOR president with embezzlement

Vatican court charges former IOR president with embezzlement

VATICAN – A former president of the Institute of Religious Works, the so-called “Vatican Bank,” and his lawyer, have been ordered to stand trial at the Vatican on charges of embezzlement and money laundering.
Pope Francis pointed out that when Jesus drove out the merchants and moneychangers from the temple, it wasn’t considered a violent act by those who witnessed it, but a typical action of prophets, who would often denounce abuses and excesses in the name of God.

The soul is God's temple, not your own, Pope warns

VATICAN – Like Jesus cast out the merchants from the temple in Jerusalem, we should drive the desire for personal gain and advantage from our hearts, replacing it with love, Pope Francis said Sunday.
Pope Francis hears confession of a youth April 23, 2016 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Returning to the confessional takes 'a bit of courage'

EDMONTON – Of all the sacraments, confession often appears to be the most intimidating, and most people tend to avoid it — sometimes for years, says Fr. Roger Niedzielski.
Pope Francis is pictured with Cardinal Gerhard Muller, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 19, 2014.

Cardinal Muller: Major shift in Church teaching is corruption, not development

VATICAN – The authentic development of doctrine is about making more explicit the revealed truths of faith, not changing, or “shifting,” Church teaching – and to use this idea to defend an agenda is wrong, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said.
For Pope Paul VI, the criticism honed in on the Second Vatican Council and, especially, on "Humanae Vitae," his 1968 encyclical on married love that included a reaffirmation of church teaching against artificial contraception.

Francis to proclaim Pope Paul VI a saint this year, debate on his worthiness of sainthood continues

VATICAN – While Pope Francis thinks Blessed Paul VI wrote "the greatest pastoral document that has ever been written," great writing does not make a pope a saint.
Pope Francis kneels before a priest to confess during a Lenten prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 17, 2017.

First Sunday of Lent: Now is the time for conversion, Pope says

VATICAN – Lent is a time to face our temptations and be converted by the Gospel, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on the first Sunday of Lent.
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