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More than 1,000 Catholics attend the Eucharistic Procession in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the Solemnity of St. Joseph / Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 19, 2024 / 07:30 am (CNA). A crowd of more than 1,000 Catholics processed with the Eucharist through the streets of downtown Washington, D.C. to celebrate the Solemnity of St….
Holy Spirit stained glass in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Alexey Gotovskyi/CNA National Catholic Register, May 19, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Sunday, May 19, is Pentecost Sunday, and the Mass readings — Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; and John 20:19-23 — present a number of symbols of the…
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null / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 19, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). As assisted suicide and euthanasia continue to grow more common throughout much of the developed world, services like palliative and hospice care serve as a vital counterweight to those trends, offering what one provider calls care for “the whole person” that’s respectful…
Pentecost painting. / Credit: Public domain Rome, Italy, May 19, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). This weekend, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year, which concludes the Easter season and celebrates the birth of the Church. Here’s what you need to know about the feast day. Pentecost always…
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For this mighty Feast of Pentecost we first scrabble after some context to enrich our participation. The sacred liturgical celebration of the mysteries of our salvation make us present to them and them to us. Sacramental reality is not inferior to sensible reality. Indeed, it embraces and elevates it and us, it transforms us. In…
[Paul Gustave Doré, Satan depicted in Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1866] I received the following note: “My adult, college-aged daughter converted to witchcraft/paganism and, in her words, ‘violently rejects,’ her Catholic faith. She lives away at college and now avoids contact with us and other family members whom she views as traditional Catholics. Recently, she has…
In modern society, where the word ‘love’ is spewed so frequently and with broad meaning, it is appropriate to question its sincerity and fruitfulness. There is no doubt that the definition of love is far deeper than our secular world projects and it encompasses a higher purpose than feelings and emotions. This is evident in…
