Today I saw my first robin of the year. The little red-breasted bird is the traditional sign that spring has finally arrived in this part of the world (Erie, PA). The robin and squirrels chasing each other around and around tree trunks bring instinctive joy to an ice encrusted heart. The temperature yesterday broke records
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Acts 9, 26-31 Un tinaitai ginin i Bidan i Manapostulis Anai måttu tåtti giya Hirusalen si Saul ha chagi para u dañña’ yan i pumalu siha na disipulu guennåo; låo humuyung manma’å’ñåo nu guiya. Lusdimås, ti manmalagu’ ma honggi na disipulu gui’. Intonsis, umingkatgåo si Barnabas as Saul ya ha intrudusi gui’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Naming a child is an important task for parents, because it gives children a sense of identity and belonging to their family and to God, Pope Francis said. “Without a name, we remain unknown, without rights and duties. God calls each one of us by name, loving us individually in the
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis insisted that the lives of the unborn and of the poor are “equally sacred,” he was not trying to shift the focus of Catholics from fighting abortion to fighting poverty, he was trying to show they are part of the same battle, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of
ST. ANTHONY, Minn. (CNS) — Even before Katherine and Jeff Dobbs were married, they had a name picked out for a future son: Fulton Francis. Fulton, for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, known for his mid-20th century broadcast evangelism, and Francis, for Pope Francis, whom the couple met at a general audience during their honeymoon in
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Philippine authorities have arrested, detained and intend to deport a 71-year-old Australian nun for allegedly engaging in illegal political activities. Ucanews.com reported immigration officers arrested Sister Patricia Fox, Philippine superior of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, at her convent in Quezon City April 16. Although the prosecutor in charge
ROME (CNS) — After circling a massive, crumbling public housing complex on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Francis had an emotional encounter with the neighborhood’s children. Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Pope Francis’ parish visits. And, at St. Paul of the Cross parish April 15, there were the usual questions like,
If there is a trademark topic, revisited time and time again by our current Pope, Francis, it is probably Mercy. Remember that he instituted a “Jubilee Year of Mercy” not so long ago. The motto, if you recall, was “Merciful like the Father.” He will likely never stop preaching and teaching about mercy because it
At the conclusion of the assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO), His Excellency Ryan P. Jimenez of Chalan Kanoa was appointed as the new Chairperson of the Communications Commission of CEPAC. Bishop Ryan was among the 80 bishops who participated in the quadrennial assembly of all bishops of Oceania. The meeting
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel requires Christians to “denounce personal and social sins committed against God and neighbor in the name of the god money and of power for its own sake,” Pope Francis wrote. Finance and the economy effect every person and every society, playing a large part in “determining the quality of
