Pope on Pentecost: Open your heart to the Holy Spirit
In his homily for the Pentecost Sunday Mass, Pope Francis reflected on the meaning of the mysterious word, difficult to translate, that Jesus used to describe the Holy Spirit: Paraclete.
Pope recalls Word of God Sunday, urges all to read Bible
Recalling the celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God, Pope Francis urges all Christians to carry a pocket Bible and to read a few verses every day.
Pope’s March prayer intention: ‘for families in crisis’
Pope Francis' monthly prayer intention this March is for "families in crisis."The Pope invited the Church to pray for this intention in...
LEV-Rizzoli publish a collection of ten significant speeches by Benedict XVI
The Vatican's publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), along with the Italian Rizzoli, publish "With God you are never alone", a collection of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s most pregnant speeches...
Caritas: Amid the virus, cultivate a “pandemic of love and solidarity”
As Christians around the world observe the annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on September 1, Caritas Internationalis is joining Pope Francis in calling on all “to take bold steps in order..
Pew survey shows majority of Catholics don’t believe in ‘Real Presence’
WASHINGTON — A new study about the level of Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist showed that a majority of Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ.