VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Baptizing one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. “Just as they received life from you, their parents, now they receive the meaning to live it: faith,” he said, referring to the 20 infants about to receive the sacrament of baptism in…
Reading I 1 Samuel 1:1-8 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, Elkanah by name,a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim.He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu,son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah;Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.This man regularly went…
Reading I 1 John 5:14-21 Beloved:We have this confidence in himthat if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask,we know that what we have asked him for is ours. If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Leo XIV warned diplomats of rising global volatility, fractured communication and a growing disregard for human life in his annual speech to representatives to the Holy See. Speaking to representatives of the 184 countries that have full diplomatic relations with the Vatican, the pope expressed concern over a “weak” global…
Reading I 1 John 5:5-13 Beloved:Who indeed is the victor over the worldbut the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ,not by water alone, but by water and Blood. The Spirit is the one who testifies,and the Spirit is truth. So there…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV and members of his College of Cardinals have begun what is a kind of synodal journey together to grow in communion and discern together “what the Lord is asking of us for the good of his people.” After convening the international group of cardinals in Rome for an…