Pope Francis is pictured in a video screenshot delivering a message to the people of Iraq in advance of his March 5-8 visit. Pope Francis said he will visit as a pilgrim of peace and reconciliation, hoping to strengthen a sense of fraternity among all the nation’s people of every ethnicity and religion. (CNS screenshot/Vatican […]
Pallbearers in San Felipe, Texas, carry the casket of Gregory Blanks, 50, Jan. 26, who died of Covid-19. (CNS photo/Callaghan O’Hare, Reuters) WASHINGTON (CNS) — Since childhood, the typical U.S. Catholic’s response to Lent is giving up, as in “What are you giving up for Lent?” If you haven’t been keeping track, Catholics in the […]
VATICAN CITY — In the period to follow the coronavirus pandemic, people should remember they are made for communion with others and with God, Pope Francis said. “Now more than ever the claim to focus everything on ourselves is illusory – to make individualism the guiding principle of society has proved to be illusory,” Pope […]