A Reflection for Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Ruddy Pascall
Faith
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Choosing to be with my father when he died was a hard decision. It was also a good one.
Like my discernment to enter religious life, it was a gut reaction I acted on and did not look back.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Focolare president calls for international peace on visit to U.S.
Margaret Karram, president of the Rome-based Focolare movement, visited the United States to discuss current issues in peacemaking.
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White smoke, a new pope and the sound of the Holy Spirit
Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as they saw the white smoke pouring from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel.
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Absence and true love on the feast of the Ascension
In the Resurrection and Ascension, love moves, changes, transforms and even becomes unrecognizable from how it began––just like Jesus in his newly resurrected body. But love never leaves.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Leo visits papal villa and former summer residence in Castel Gandolfo
Pope Leo XIV spent several hours May 29 visiting the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project set up at the papal villa and farm in Castel Gandolfo, as well as the former papal summer residence there.
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Washington bishops sue over mandatory reporter law’s lack of Catholic confession protections
Washington state’s bishops filed a lawsuit May 29 over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
The Ascension gives us our mission
A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, by Heather Trotta
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Gracias: Pope Leo ‘is the ideal man to lead the church at this time’
In this interview, Cardinal Gracias speaks about the election of Leo XIV, his membership in Pope Francis’ council of cardinal advisors and why he considers Francis a saint.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What would our faith be without the Ascension?
A Homily for the Solemnity of the Ascension, by Father Terrance Klein