Pope Francis holds a bracelet given by a young person as he arrives at Tocumen International Airport in Panama City Jan. 23, 2019. The pope is visiting Panama for World Youth Day. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Take charge of your roots, culture, pope tells indigenous youths

Posted by - January 27, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said that in order to face the challenges ahead, young indigenous men and women must protect and never forget their roots and their cultures. In a video message sent to the World Meeting of Indigenous Youth in Soloy, Panama, Jan. 18, the pope urged the young people to “be

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Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks with Hawaii State Rep. Gene Ward after the Red Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu Jan. 15, 2019. Cardinal Turkson gave the homily at the annual Mass to pray for public officials. (CNS photo/Anna Weaver, Hawaii Catholic Herald)

At Red Mass, cardinal offers a spiritual view of ecology, work, politics

Posted by - January 27, 2019

HONOLULU (CNS) — Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, offered Hawaii’s civil servants a consecrated view of work, politics and environmental stewardship in his talk at Hawaii’s Red Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu. “Good politics is at the service of peace,”

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This is the cover of "But Few Are Chosen: A Different Path to Coming of Age" by Michael Connolly, Richard Olive and John Tuohey. The memoir was co-written by three men who detail life in their high school seminary. (CNS photo/courtesy Vandamere Press)

High school seminary led to new lives for three teen boys

Posted by - January 27, 2019

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The high school seminary as a source of priestly vocations has nearly faded from the U.S. scene. But for three men, the impact it made on their young lives launched them into adult lives filled with potential and possibility, much of which they’ve accomplished. Now, more than 50 years after their years

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Luke Spehar, a certified life coach, talks with Allen Diaz in 2018 at Pregnancy Choices in Apple Valley, Minn. Diaz is participating in a program for expectant fathers. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)

By helping expectant fathers, center upholds ‘dignity of fatherhood’

Posted by - January 27, 2019

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (CNS) — When Allen Diaz’s girlfriend — who is pregnant — visited Pregnancy Choices pregnancy help center in Apple Valley last year, it led to more help for Diaz as an expectant father than he could have imagined. “It helps a lot when you’re a new father, and on top of that,

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Fr. Leo Neil Casas Bullos, OAR presented the Certificate of Appreciation to the members of Saipan Fil-American Lions Club last Sunday during the Hospitality Sunday at Santa Remedios Parish, Tanapag. The Lions Club spearheaded the event in coordination with the Legion of Mary Presidium of Santa Remedios.

Sta. Remedios Parish hosted Hospitality Sunday

Posted by - January 27, 2019

A huge crowd turned out last Sunday, January 20, 2019 in the village of Tanapag for the hospitality program organized by the Legion of Mary Nuestra Senora Bithen De Los Remedios Praesidum.  The event started promptly after the 8:00 A.M. Mass and featured free haircuts as well as health screenings to community members in attendance.  

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Secret Acts of Kindness

Posted by - January 27, 2019

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before others to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored

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GOD’S STRANGE WAYS

Posted by - January 27, 2019

There’s a time to ask and a time to receive. There’s a time to give and a time to gain. A time to loose and time to recover. A time to pray for something and a time to receive another thing. Have you ever asked God for something but he answered you in somewhat strange

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On science, magic and so on Part 1

Posted by - January 27, 2019

I was a middle age adult in 1997 when the first Harry Potter book was published. Even though I was an adult and supposed to be serious minded, I enjoyed “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” very much. I was hooked on the magical world of this literary eleven-year-old. Since then I have read every

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III DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU

Posted by - January 27, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                        Neh 8, 2-4. 5-6. 8-10  Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Nehemiah  I pali’ as Ezra ha chuli’ i lai guatu gi me’nan i inetnun, ni manggaigi i lalåhi, famalåo’an, yan atyu siha na famagu’un i manggai’idåd esta para u fanmangumprendi.  Anai tumohgi gui’ gi un punta ni tåya’ humohomi gi me’nan i

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