VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People, especially the young, need to live with passion — the passion to persevere and not see life as a burden, Pope Francis said. “When I read news about young people committing suicide — and there are many,” the pope said he asks himself, “What happened here?” “I can say at
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People need to make peace with their lives and anything they are running from, rather than lose themselves to escapism and playful distraction, Pope Francis said. There is an “industry of distraction” in full force today, which paints the ideal world as being “a big playground where everybody has fun” and
GREEN BAY, Wis. (CNS) — For the past 40 years, Pat Boerschinger has been legally blind. And while she cannot see, her faith in God and devotion to Mary guide her every step. Boerschinger was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited degenerative eye disease, in 1978. “It was devastating,” she said. “When I first
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus himself showed that the best way to respond to scandal and divisiveness is to stay silent and pray, Pope Francis said Sept. 3 as he resumed his early morning Masses with invited guests. “With people lacking goodwill, with people who seek only scandal, with those who look only for division,
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Water is a gift of God that makes life possible and yet millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water, and rivers, seas and oceans continue to be polluted, Pope Francis said. “Care for water sources and water basins is an urgent imperative,” the pope said in a
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The seal of confession is so important and sacred that a priest would be automatically excommunicated under canon law for directly revealing the contents of a confession. The sacramental seal is absolutely inviolable and “admits no exceptions” — even if the intention was to prevent an imminent evil or serious crime,
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) — The director of Clare Guest House puts a different spin on the “What Would Jesus Do” slogan. “I think what we provide is ‘What Jesus Would Do,’” said Franciscan Sister Gwen Hennessey of the transitional home for women who have been released from prison. Clare Guest House began as an
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians must engage in spiritual combat every day against a worldly spirit that leads down a path of arrogance and petty gossip, Pope Francis said. In his homily during morning Mass Sept. 4, the pope said that the hearts of men and women are like “a battlefield” where the spirit of
Gaudium et spes presents a beautiful and challenging picture of Christian marriage. As a ministry priority the local church is challenged with trying to support marriage and family life in the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa through its ministry. How do you translate this priority into action? One of the ways I’ve tried to deal with
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Is 35, 4-7a Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Isaiah Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: Sangåni atyu siha i manluluhan kurason-ñiha: Na’fanmetgut hamyu, ya cha’-miyu fanma’å’a’ñao! Esti Guiya i Yi’us-miyu, måfattu para u na’empas; Måfattu para en fansinatba nu i yini’usan na ayudu-ña. Pues siempri u fanmababa i matan i mambåtchit,
