ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — Growing up in St. Louis, Susanna Spencer loved her family’s Advent tradition of adorning a Jesse Tree with Old Testament symbols leading up to Christ’s birth. She continued the tradition while in college at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, where she met her husband, Mark. “After seeing (Advent traditions)
YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — Christians and Buddhists are called by faith to overcome evil with goodness and violence with peace, Pope Francis said during a meeting with leaders of Myanmar’s Buddhist community. Quoting St. Francis of Assisi and Buddha, the pope insisted that in a land where the powerfully bonded pairing of religion and ethnicity
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Second Vatican Council continues to have an enduring impact on the Catholic Church and on the papacy of Pope Francis, according to the Vatican’s top diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. That gathering of bishops from around the world presented a new paradigm of a “world church — a church with a global
YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — In a small, informal meeting with a variety of religious leaders, Pope Francis went to the heart of his message for Myanmar: unity, not uniformity, is the secret to peace. Representatives of the Baptist, Anglican, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as leaders from ecumenical organizations, briefly told the
YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — Greeted by two dozen children wearing traditional attire and by the nation’s bishops, Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar Nov. 27 for a four-day visit. The arrival ceremony at the Yangon airport was brief and led by an envoy of the president, because the formal welcome was scheduled for the next day
Thank you To each parish, school, family and indi- vidual who donated in honor of the Karidat Food Pantry Thanksgiving Food Drive, we are so grateful to have shelves full to bursting right now. God bless you for your generosity! (Please be sure to visit the Karidat Facebook page to see photo acknowledgements of all
Peter’s dreams of glory and power were shattered. The hope that Israel might experience freedom from the Roman yoke was destroyed. Peter came to realize that he wasn’t some powerful hero who would defend his Lord. Rather, he was a weak fisherman, who was so cowardly that he was afraid to acknowledge Jesus before a
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Is 63, 16b-17. 19b; 64: 2-7 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Isaias Hågu, Asaina, i tatan-måmi, mafa’na’an Håo nana’librin-måmi para todu i tiempu. Håfa na Un sedi ham manabak, O Asaina, ginin i chalån-mu, ya Un na’fanmahettuk i kurason-måmi ya ti manma’åñåo ham esta nu Hågu?
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People have a basic choice in the way they live: either striving to build up treasures on earth or giving to others in order to gain heaven, Pope Francis said. “What we invest in love remains, the rest vanishes,” the pope said in his homily Nov. 19, the first World Day
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — It is not morbid to start each day understanding that it may be one’s last, Pope Francis said. Death is a reality that will come to everyone — for some as a sudden surprise, for others as an end to an illness — but in every case, Jesus will say, “Come
