VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With rain-slicked coats and rain-soaked feet, last-minute visitors did not let Rome’s infamous winter deluges and damp stop them from their goal: to pray and pass through to the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. With just a few hours to go before it closed to the public late Jan. 5,…
Reading 1 1 John 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another,because love is of God;everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.In this way the love of God was revealed to us:God sent his only-begotten Son into the worldso that we might…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — An estimated 33 million visitors and pilgrims came to the Vatican to celebrate the Jubilee Year, exceeding early forecasts, officials said at a news conference at the Vatican Jan. 5. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization’s section for new evangelization and chief organizer of the 2025 Holy Year,…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After praying the Sunday Angelus, Pope Leo XIV said he was following the developments in Venezuela with “deep concern,” in light of the United States’ military operation that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. “The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other…
WASHINGTON – Catholics nationwide are invited to pray “9 Days for Life,” an annual Respect Life novena starting Friday, January 16. In the Catholic Church, a ‘novena’ consists of prayers over nine successive days, and this particular novena is an opportunity for prayer and penance in observance of the annual Day of Prayer for the Legal…
Readings for the Memorial of Saint John Neumann, Bishop [In the Dioceses of the United States] Reading 1 1 John 3:22–4:6 Beloved:We receive from him whatever we ask,because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.And his commandment is this:we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,and love one another just…