VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pilgrims passing through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica during the Holy Year 2025, going to confession, receiving Communion and praying for the intentions of the pope can receive an indulgence, but so can inmates in prison and those who work to defend human life or assist migrants and refugees.…
Reading 1 Acts 19:1-8 While Apollos was in Corinth,Paul traveled through the interior of the countryand down to Ephesus where he found some disciples. He said to them,“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”They answered him,“We have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”He said, “How were you baptized?”They replied,…
Readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter – Ascension Readings for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Reading 1 Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26 Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers—there was a group of about one hundred and twenty personsin the one place —.He said, “My brothers,the Scripture had to be…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Believing security can be obtained through war and fear is a great deception, Pope Francis said. “To guarantee lasting peace, we must return to a recognition of our common humanity and place fraternity at the center of peoples’ lives,” he told participants in a conference on human fraternity. “Political peace needs…
Reading 1 Acts 18:23-28 After staying in Antioch some time,Paul left and traveled in orderly sequencethrough the Galatian country and Phrygia,bringing strength to all the disciples. A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria,an eloquent speaker, arrived in Ephesus.He was an authority on the Scriptures.He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and,with…
ROME (CNS) — Blind, unbridled consumerism and selfishness — not the number of people on the planet and having children — are the root causes of the world’s problems, Pope Francis said. The reasons for pollution and world hunger, for example, are not based on the number of children being born, but on “the choices…