WASHINGTON – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued the following statement on the passing of President Jimmy Carter. “On behalf of my brother bishops, we join in mourning the passing of former President Jimmy Carter. His lifelong work on behalf of peace among nations will continue…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In late November, during a brief audience with people involved in the sport of motorcycle racing, Pope Francis asked for prayers, joking that “my work is very accelerated, and my bike has aged and doesn’t work properly!” A few days after his 88th birthday, Pope Francis gets some help blowing out…
ROME (CNS) — Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome’s Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold. After reciting a formal prayer before opening the prison’s Holy Door Dec. 26, the pope took the microphone back to…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As millions of pilgrims prepare to cross through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis called on individuals, nations and the global community to take a transformative step toward peace and reconciliation by walking through the “door of salvation” that is Jesus Christ. “Jesus is the door of peace,”…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, launching what he called a “Jubilee of Hope.” As the doors opened, the bells of the basilica began to peal. After the reading of a brief passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus…
Reading I 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 When King David was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from his enemies on every side, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God dwells in a tent!” Nathan answered…