Above: pilgrims lighting candles in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Editor’s note: there is no free, digitised version of the Patristic homily appointed in the office for today’s Gospel. The sermon is Homily 33 of St. Gregory the Great, and an excerpt can be found here (under “Reading 1”) and a full…
Above: Vologda, Russia. History preserves many signs of the unity of the Church — the unity that seemed to have been lost between East and West, between the Catholic Church under Rome and the Third Rome — Russia — a great European empire of the age when the so-called ‘confessions’ had already hardened into fixed…
DHAKA, Bangladesh — As Lent calls Catholics around the world to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, many faithful in Bangladesh are embracing a fourth practice this year: serving the country’s street children. On a recent Sunday at Tejgaon Church in Dhaka, Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) missionary Brother Lucio Beninati invited parishioners to join Potho…
When R. Hasbani first planned to leave her home due to the latest hostilities in Borj el Moulouk, a Christian-majority village in southern Lebanon near Qlayaa, it was Father Pierre al-Rahi who urged her to stay. “At that moment, Father Pierre visited me, and he put his hands on my shoulders and he told me,…
When some observers claim—such as Dr. D.P. Curtin does in his article in Crisis Magazine—that the “Byzantine Catholic Church is collapsing” and will “soon fade into oblivion,” the question should be asked, “What part of the Byzantine Catholic Church are we talking about?” Collapse and fading away are certainly not the case in the Byzantine…
A man from the Midwest named Joe introduced himself to me the other day and said he had something for me. Since we were surrounded by a gathering of Catholic men, I assumed he was about to hand me a rosary or a pamphlet about a ministry. Instead, he reached into his pocket for my…
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