VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A week after inaugurating the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis gave thanks for all the work that went into its preparation and prayed that it would be a year of peace, justice and fraternity. “At this time, we want to raise our thanksgiving to God because he has allowed us to…
Reading I 1 Jn 2:18-21 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Offering his condolences, Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s Christian faith and his lifelong mission to advance peace. The pope “was saddened to learn of the death of former President Jimmy Carter and offers heartfelt condolences,” said a telegram signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, on…
WASHINGTON – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued the following statement on the passing of President Jimmy Carter. “On behalf of my brother bishops, we join in mourning the passing of former President Jimmy Carter. His lifelong work on behalf of peace among nations will continue…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In late November, during a brief audience with people involved in the sport of motorcycle racing, Pope Francis asked for prayers, joking that “my work is very accelerated, and my bike has aged and doesn’t work properly!” A few days after his 88th birthday, Pope Francis gets some help blowing out…
ROME (CNS) — Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome’s Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold. After reciting a formal prayer before opening the prison’s Holy Door Dec. 26, the pope took the microphone back to…