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May 2025

May 19, 2025

Missionary Pope from the peripheries

Pope Leo XIV welcomed yesterday in the Apostolic Palace a delegation from Chiclayo, the city...

April 2025

April 25, 2025

The Heart of Pope Francis: Mercy and Mission

This is an opinion piece I wrote for the Savannah Morning News After he was...

March 2025

March 03, 2025

Why Ukraine still fights? Consider its National Anthem

The answer to the question might be found in the words of the Ukrainian National...

January 2025

January 31, 2025

Pope suppresses Peruvian Sodalitium of Christian Life

Today, at the conclusion of its sixth General Assembly, the Sodalitium of Christian Life, a...

January 02, 2025

Holy Year 2025, Open the Doors to Christ

Pope Francis has opened the Holy Door at Saint Peter Basilica in the Vatican. Every...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Does the Catholic Church now allow same-sex unions?

As a Catholic priest, I am asked to give people a blessing all the time. ...

November 2023

November 11, 2023

Bishop Strickland relieved from Tyler by Pope Francis

The Diocese of Tyler, Texas announced on its website today: "Bishop Joseph Strickland has been...

October 2023

October 19, 2023

The Synod, turmoil, and misunderstandings

After a heated debate and vote in October 1963 on whether a newly written document...

October 16, 2023

Nota breve de un Párroco sobre el Sínodo

Estoy seguro de que has oído en las noticias sobre el Sínodo de Obispos que...

October 15, 2023

A Pastor’s brief note on the Synod

I am sure you have heard much in the news about the Synod of Bishops...

August 2023

August 12, 2023

Where do you experience fear?

When the apostles saw Jesus walking on water, Saint Matthew writes that they weren’t just...

August 04, 2023

Where will World Youth Day be next?

Every time World Youth Day takes place, there is a question looming over the event,...

August 03, 2023

Pope to Half Million in Lisbon: The Lord opens his arms to all!

An estimated 500,000 gathered at Parco Eduardo VII, renamed Colina do Encontro during World Youth...

May 2022

May 02, 2022

USA Vocation Directors Gather to Discuss Priestly Formation

About ninety Vocation Directors from throughout the United States have gathered at Immaculate Conception Seminary...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

From Darkness to Light, Death to Resurrection

On March 27th, 2020, Pope Francis ascended slowly and alone the long stone ramp that...

April 07, 2022

Pope Francis to travel to Ukraine?

Pope Francis has been invited to visit the nation of Ukraine by President Volodymyr Zelensky,...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

Rome Releases Consecration Prayer for Ukraine and Russia

Pope Francis has formally invited every Bishop in the world to join him in an...

March 18, 2022

Our Lady of Fatima arrives to Ukraine

On Thursday, March 17th, a statue of Our Lady of Fatima arrived from Portugal to...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

War in Ukraine, Pope Francis Prays for Peace

It appears that war is inevitable in Ukraine. When I spent time in that beautiful...

September 2021

September 07, 2021

Jesus Heals Our Wounds

When we are sick, it makes no sense to wait until we are healed to...

July 2021

July 22, 2021

Pope Francis, Traditionis Custodes, and the Latin Mass

I finally had a chance to read carefully the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes issued by...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Modern Saint: San Romero de America

“Jesus is radical,” stated Pope Francis during the canonization Mass of Pope Paul VI and...

March 07, 2021

Pope Francis in Mosul Iraq, strengthen your brothers

This morning as I got ready for Mass, I watched the Pope meet with people...

March 06, 2021

Pope Francis condemns religious extremism in visit to Plain of Ur

After a meeting with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani who is the highest leader of...

March 05, 2021

Pope Francis in Iraq

After fifteen months of no travel, Pope Francis made history by flying four and a...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

Thoughts on Pope Francis’ words

On October 1963 during the Second Vatican Council after a heated debate whether the treatise...

October 20, 2020

Pallium: Sign of Unity

When he foretold that Peter would deny him, Jesus said to him, “Simon, Simon, behold...

October 09, 2020

Archbishop Hartmayer of Atlanta receives Pallium

On October 7th, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the Apostolic Nuncio to the...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Sacramento Bishop excommunicates priest

A letter by Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento posted on the Diocese of Sacramento website...

July 2020

July 08, 2020

Stephen Parkes named Bishop of Savannah

This morning His Holiness Pope Francis announced the appointment of Reverend Stephen D. Parkes to...