On Catholic Education (Part 1)

Posted by - February 16, 2019

This time of year is usually set aside to honor Catholic Education and to encourage families to send their children to Catholic Schools. A lot of schools register students for the next school year in March, so publicizing Catholic schools a month or so before is a reminder to parents to register their children. I

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VI DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU

Posted by - February 16, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                               Jer 17, 5-8  Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Jeremiah  Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina:  Matdision para i taotåo ni manangokku ottru tåotåo siha,             ni ha ispipiha i minetgot-ña gi sensin,             ni ha bibira i kurason-ña ginin i Saina.  Kalang gui’ un trongku ni ti fafanokcha’ gi disiettu

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Pope Francis uses incense as he celebrates Mass at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 5, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Witness to Christ with love, pope tells Catholics on Arabian Peninsula

Posted by - February 9, 2019

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CNS) — Meeting with tens of thousands of Catholics living in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis urged them to be meek, peaceful and express their Christian identity by loving others. The UAE Catholic community, which numbers close to 1 million, includes foreign workers from roughly 100 nations, but particularly

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Month of Love

Posted by - February 9, 2019

February is known as the month of love, because it is the month in which Valentine’s Day is celebrated. This special day is usually associated with romantic love. However, the El Shaddai community has focused this month on the topic of God’s love. Last February 3, Fr. Anthony’s talk to the Gawain was about the

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Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, welcomes and introduces speakers Feb. 4, 2019, for a panel discussion about domestic and international policy for immigrants at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Catholics have faith, tools to repair a broken world, says archbishop

Posted by - February 9, 2019

WASHINGTON (CNS) — With the gifts given them through baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist, Catholics have the tools needed to repair a world broken “in thousands of pieces,” said the archbishop who chairs the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. “At the end of every Mass we are sent forth not merely to

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Pope Francis celebrates morning Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, at the Vatican Feb. 7, 2019. In his homily, the pope called on Christians to embrace humility in order to give an authentic witness to the faith. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

World needs courageous prophets, pope says at Angelus

Posted by - February 9, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world is in need of true disciples of Christ who are prophets of hope to the poor and the downtrodden, Pope Francis said. All men and women, especially those who are suffering, can gain hope by encountering “people who are courageous and persevering in responding to the Christian vocation,” the

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Sister Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, is pictured along a border wall between Texas and Mexico in late February 2018. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has received national honors for her work with immigrants, but in remarks Feb. 2, 2019, in Washington she told people at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering she doesn't do anything different than what they do. (CNS photo/Barbara Johnston, courtesy University of Notre Dame)

Prayer keeps award-winning nun centered amid all the hoopla

Posted by - February 9, 2019

WASHINGTON (CNS) — You might have seen Sister Norma Pimentel around: hoping to talk with President Donald Trump when he made his Texas-Mexico border visit in January; speaking at the United Nations; testifying before Congress; being part of an international satellite broadcast in 2015 with Pope Francis just before the pope’s U.S. visit. But that’s

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Pope Francis holds a candle as he arrives to lead a Mass during the World Day for Consecrated Life in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 2, 2019. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Following Jesus is a daily choice, pope tells religious at Vatican

Posted by - February 9, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The choice to follow God in life is not just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity but a decision that is made every day, Pope Francis said. Christians truly encounter Jesus through concrete events in life that occur “every day; not every now and then,” the pope said in his homily for the feast

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