VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God shows the greatest love and compassion for the greatest sinners, Pope Francis said. The Lord “has come precisely for us sinners and the greater the sinner you are, the closer the Lord is to you because he has come for you, the greatest sinner; for me, the greatest sinner; for
MADRID (CNS) — Catholic couples in Spain will undergo up to three years of marriage preparation under an initiative by their bishops to reverse the country’s high rates of divorce. The Spanish bishops launched Together on the Way (“Juntos en Camino”), a program to help couples to succeed in their vocation to marriage amid a
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told global business and government leaders that everyone has the moral responsibility to seek the integral development of all people, but especially those who are in need, suffering injustice or whose lives are threatened. “The moral obligation to care for one another flows from this fact,” which must never
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sometimes the political choices people face can seem like a choice between supporting a “snake” or supporting a “dragon,” but Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops their job is to step back from partisan politics and help their faithful discern based on values, said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (CNS) — Alonna Mertz prayed in front of abortion clinics as a teenager in Michigan, driven by her well-formed, pro-life conviction. Then, in 2017 as a young adult, she went to such a clinic in Minneapolis for a different and unexpected reason: She was pregnant. Dating a man whose values didn’t align
ROSWELL, Ga. (CNS) — A months-long project to build a tiny home checked all the boxes for Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell. The project — which began in November 2018 and was just recently completed — has fostered a culture of service on the Catholic school’s campus; incorporated engineering, technology science and the arts;
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every Christian should be grateful for the gift of his or her baptism, and that gratitude should draw them together to recognize that they are brothers and sisters and called to pursue holiness together, Pope Francis said. Welcoming an ecumenical pilgrimage from Finland to the Vatican Jan. 17, Pope Francis told
Catholic Schools’ Week (January 26-February 1 in 2020) as a designated celebration did not exist in Mother Margarita’s tenure as an educator. Had it been, however, she would have been at the forefront in celebrating. . . Mother Margarita gave over twenty years of her life to education. She began teaching in 1906 at the
For the past two weeks, we have shared the overview and the changes of the recently approved Liturgical Guidelines for the Celebration of Matrimony here in our Diocese. This week, we will focus on the special circumstances and additional considerations as it relates to (1) Music at the Wedding Liturgy; (2) Decorations; (3) Photographs; and
If you missed the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11th, it is not too late to observe Trafficking Awareness Month, which spans the entire month of January. Here in the CNMI the proclamation signing of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month at the Office of the Governor on Capital Hill took place on
