“In that Caritas center are many Christians who have learned to see with God’s own eyes,” Pope Francis said. “God is not worried about details but seeks out and awaits each person with a father’s eyes.”
Europe
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis ends visit to Bulgaria, urging its religious leaders to work for peace
Like Saint Francis, the pope said, “each of us is called to follow in his footsteps by becoming a peacemaker, an ‘artisan’ of peace.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis celebrates first Communion with 245 children in Bulgaria
Even as pope, Francis considers himself a parish priest—“the world’s parish priest” as he once told a friend. This morning, he presided in a small Catholic enclave more than 100 miles from Sofia, the capital city.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis hails Bulgaria as “a culture of encounter”
“God Bless Bulgaria,” Pope Francis prayed, and “keep her in peace and ever hospitable, and grant her prosperity and happiness.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
What to expect from Pope Francis’ trip to Bulgaria and North Macedonia
Pope Francis will visit Bulgaria and North Macedonia from May 5 to 7, two majority Orthodox countries with very small Catholic populations.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A church remade in the midst of modernity
The Catholic Book Club’s new selection studies the Catholic Church’s ecclesial response to modernity over the last century.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The West’s debt to Notre Dame
In the wake of the fire, perhaps today’s “cultured despisers” of religion will come to appreciate how devotion to Notre Dame has been a wellspring of Western civilization as we know it.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What the sacking of Rome has to teach us about the fire at Notre Dame
The fire at Notre Dame raised questions about God’s protection of sacred sites. But then how could God allow the destruction of Rome just one generation after Christianity became the official religion of the Empire?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
As Easter Sunday approaches, Parisians ponder the meaning of the Notre-Dame fire
The air was still thick with smoke and the ash burnt the eyes of the onlookers, who were relieved to see the cathedral still standing. For many Catholics, the coincidence of the blaze occurring at the start of Holy Week speaks of the greater mysteries of Easter.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
As Notre Dame burned, America watched with sorrow
The day before this issue went to press, we watched on our newsroom monitors the devastating fire at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.