Dan Beaudrie is a man of faith who beat the odds. Actually, he didn’t just beat them, he crushed them. Both faith and wrestling were important to Beaudrie, a high school student in Cody, Wyoming. He trained his way up and ranked third in a statewide tournament his freshman year. But in a matter of
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis began the New Year with an apology for losing his patience the night before with a woman who grabbed his hand and yanked him closer to her while he was greeting people in St. Peter’s Square. To get away, the pope had slapped her hand and gave her a
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Reciting the Angelus with thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square the day after Christmas, Pope Francis asked them to join him in reciting the “Hail Mary” for the victims of Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines. The pope told the crowd that he shared the suffering of the Filipino people, “whom
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 “in peace, peace in their hearts,” and that families would mark New Year’s by “communicating with one another.” Reciting the Angelus prayer Dec. 29, the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis entrusted to Mary, “Queen of the Family,”
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world will not know peace unless there is an end to violence against women, the exploitation of their bodies and the denial of their dignity, Pope Francis said on the feast of Mary, Mother of God. Celebrating Mass Jan. 1 for the feast day and the World Day of Peace,
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Paul Giesting has long been frustrated by a concept in Western culture that he says “is absolutely not true.” It’s the concept that faith and science are not compatible, “that you have to pick one or the other.” So when the member of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parish in Rushville,
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) — Mozart proclaims the organ to be the “king of instruments,” but it actually works more like a parliament. It reigns when its panoply of voices speaks in harmony and balance, with whispers and crescendos drawing upon the full spectrum of sound and human emotion. “There’s the capacity to surround and
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — “There is something almost sacramental about the life of the rural family.” Those words were spoken by a North Dakota bishop in November 1923, when a small group of clergy and laypeople gathered in St. Louis to found the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. They were inspired by a farm
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christmas night tells each person, no matter how poor or sinful, that they are utterly and totally loved by God, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Jesus’ birth. The grace of God revealed in the birth of Jesus in a stable in Bethlehem “is divine love, the love that changes lives,
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When a group of children sang a belated “Happy Birthday” to Pope Francis and gave him a big cake, he needed to think twice before not eating some of it before lunch. “The cake looks good,” the pope told children served by the St. Martha pediatric clinic at the Vatican. “Can
