The Diocese of Buffalo has begun both Jubilee 2025 and a Year of Healing. This will be a year marked with prayer, pilgrimage and celebration. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Sound Hub · December 30, 2024 – Diocese celebrates Mass to mark Jubilee 2025 and Year of Healing A jubilee year, also known as a “holy […]
WASHINGTON — A lifelong Baptist, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who died at age 100 on Sunday, Dec. 29, held views that differed from Catholic teaching on a number of controversial social and doctrinal issues, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of female pastors. Nonetheless, perhaps more than any other president in American history, […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher invites all to take part in an inaugural Mass to begin Jubilee 2025, a time for prayer, pilgrimage, celebration and faith, taking place Sunday, Dec. 29, at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Cathedral in downtown Buffalo. Pilgrims are asked to gather at Cathedral Park to begin a procession into the cathedral. […]
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve, officially launching the Jubilee Year 2025. “O Christ, bright star of the morning, incarnation of infinite love, long-awaited salvation, sole hope of the world, illumine our hearts with your radiant splendor,” the pope prayed on Dec. 24 […]
He endured abandonment and racial prejudice while growing up. Yet through his love of Christ, St. Martin de Porres loved others who were poor and rejected and helped grow a family of faith. His life is the focus of the latest episode of “Sister Justine’s Saint Tales,” the audio podcast play series produced by the […]
Around this time last year, a Vatican document authorizing priests to provide non-liturgical blessings for same-sex couples led to headlines around the world in the secular and Catholic presses. Some bishops from Africa rejected the pronouncement, some in Europe celebrated it, and bishops in various places issued guidelines explaining it. One year later, what has […]
MADRID, Spain — Did you know Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer, his favorite movie is “La Strada” by Federico Fellini, and that he doesn’t watch television? On the occasion of his 88th birthday, these and other interesting facts about Pope Francis are highlighted below. 1. How did he discover his vocation? On the feast […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Catholics who have spent time in both Baltimore and Richmond, Virginia, may be unaware that two near-identical parishes exist in both cities, both built by the same architect-priest and both offering an ideal of what their designer called a “quiet, recollected, prayerful, somber, sanctified” atmosphere of peace and worship. St. Benedict Church […]
Pope Francis called on musicians and artists to serve as “angels of peace” during his address to participants of the 2024 Vatican Christmas concert on Saturday. Speaking in the Clementine Hall, the pope emphasized the unique power of music to foster unity and communion, drawing parallels to the first Christmas. “It is moving to think, […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations as concrete ways to usher in a new era of hope. “Sporadic […]
