The Church in Italy suffered yet another blow in the past week when a thief posing as a pilgrim stole part of the brain of St. John Bosco that was housed in a reliquary in a church near Turin.
The faithful from around the world are once again offering prayers of support and comfort to the British people who suffered yet another terrorist attack on Saturday night that took the lives of seven innocent people.
(Facebook)When a priest in Italy discovered blasphemous graffiti on the wall of his church, he responded to the vandals with an open letter on Facebook which has gone viral.
It’s a custom in Italy during the Eastern season for a parish priest to travel door-to-door blessing homes. But in this Rome suburb, a very unexpected priest showed up to perform the annual ritual – Pope Francis!
Our Lady of Manchester, pray for us!Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSPope Francis has expressed deep sadness over the terrorist attack that claimed 22 lives at a concert in Manchester, England last evening, while the local church condemned the attack and is invoking Our Lady of Manchester to pray for the victims.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSJust after returning from his brief pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Pope Francis reflected on the experience, saying that while visiting the site of the apparitions, he felt immersed in the prayer of the faithful “that for one hundred years has flowed there like a river.”
Although the report has not yet been made public, Church officials charged with investigating the validity of the apparitions at Medjugorje have apparently decided that the first seven apparitions were authentic, but succeeding visions are suspect.
Our Lady’s superior peacemaking skills will be on display at the United Nations on May 12th in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions – and Johnnette will be there!
Pope Francis will mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal with a 25-hour visit during which time he will canonize the two youngest seers at a Mass expected to draw close to a half-million people.
Catholic identity continues to improve on Catholic campuses nationwide, but there are still a few holdouts who are planning on hosting commencement speakers this year who openly oppose Church teaching.
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