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Perhaps as a spiritual exercise we could be a “Samaritan for a day.” Be especially alert for events and people that give hope and light. Be eager to reach out for the unfamiliar and new that show promise. And above all, be grateful for the gifts that God gives.

God's Word on Sunday: Power of God overcomes all barriers

Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 17 (Year A) Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Psalm 66; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21

Samaria must have been quite a sight. Demons shrieking, the paralyzed and lame regaining their strength and mobility, and countless other signs and wonders amazed the multitudes. Many were moved to accept the word of God and be baptized.

God's Word on Sunday: The Spirit keeps Church moving forward

God's Word on Sunday: The Spirit keeps Church moving forward

Fifth Sunday of Easter May 10 (Year A) Acts 6:1-7; Psalm 33; 1 Peter 2:4-9; John 14:1-12

The period of serene apostolic simplicity and unity did not last long.

Our Lady of Peace in Toronto, complete with arrangements of fresh flowers, looked very different this Easter compared to its usual full house.

The spiritual frontline amid pandemic

On a cold afternoon in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I took my shopping trolley to go for some groceries. 

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, during an audience with participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for Clergy at the Vatican June 1, 2017. Pope Francis has expanded the ranks of the top members of the College of Cardinals, naming as "cardinal bishops" Cardinal Stella and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Pope Francis makes promotions within the College of Cardinals

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has expanded the ranks of the top members of the College of Cardinals, naming as "cardinal bishops" Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Health care and prison workers attend the Way of the Cross procession led by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on Good Friday. The meditations for the service were written by people associatd with an Italian prison.

Mary Marrocco: We are nothing, yet have been given all

It was a trying Lent. The Church has lived something historically unprecedented, as Catholics worldwide were able to go to church nowhere and everywhere. Friends and family shared the joy of seeing Mass around the world and the grief of fasting from receiving communion, even on Good Friday, even on Easter Sunday.

Workers survey bones taken from an ossuary at the Teutonic cemetery in this image released by the Vatican July 27, 2019. The Vatican announced April 30, 2020, that the Vatican City State court officially closed its investigation into the possibility that some of the remains belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage woman missing for more than 30 years.

Case closed: Vatican says bones are not those of missing woman

VATICAN CITY -- Because all of the human bones found in a Vatican cemetery last summer were at least 100 years old, the Vatican City State court officially closed its investigation into the possibility that some of the remains belonged to a teenage woman missing for more than 30 years.

You have the only approval you will ever need, the approval of God. Jesus made this possible by bearing our sins and becoming the guardian and shepherd of our souls.

God's Word on Sunday: Be open to a change of mind and heart

Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 3 (Year A) Acts 2:14a, 36b-41; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10

When we have done something terribly wrong, it is impossible to call it back. Words remain spoken, deeds remain done, hearts remain broken.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York speaks in 2016 at a session of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu, Philippines. Pope Francis, the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and local organizers have agreed to postpone by one year the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Hungary, the Vatican announced April 23, 2020.

International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest postponed

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and local organizers have agreed to postpone by one year the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress, the Vatican announced April 23.

In an editorial published April 17, 2020, by the Spanish magazine Vida Nueva, Pope Francis said Christians are called to be joyful witnesses to Christ's victory over death during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pope Francis postpones World Meeting of Families, World Youth Day

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has agreed with a recommendation by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life to postpone by one year the next gatherings of the World Meeting of Families and World Youth Day.

Joseph von Führich’s 1837 painting of the disciples meeting Jesus on the road to Emmaus.

God's Word on Sunday: God is always showing the way forward

Third Sunday of Easter, April 26 (Year A) Act 2:14, 22b-28; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35

The ways of God and the ways of human beings are seldom in harmony.

Pope Francis calls for universal basic income

Pope Francis calls for universal basic income

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has joined a growing movement that believes the COVID-19 crisis should become a catalyst to consider a universal basic wage to guarantee everyone a minimum income.

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