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Pope Francis speaks during his general audience on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 1, 2025 / 16:09 pm (CNA). Pope Francis urged Ukrainian youth on Saturday to persist in dialogue and patriotism while acknowledging the profound challenges of forgiveness amid…
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The Feast we celebrate this Sunday is called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this day we definitively close out the Advent/Christmas cycle. It is forty days since Christmas. According to Mosaic Law, women who had given birth were required to offer a sacrifice for ritual purification. Of course, Our Lady was not…
Emergency service members respond to a plane crash in a neighborhood near Cottman Avenue on Jan. 31, 2025, in Philadelphia. The plane, a medical transport jet carrying a child patient, crashed after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport. / Credit: Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2025 / 10:55 am (CNA). Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson…
[“Satan Bound,” Bible de Sacy – Old French Illustrated Holy Bible] The lowest level of demonic involvement in our lives is “temptation”. Demons tempt everyone. God allows this for our sanctification. The next level up in their evil involvement is “harassment.” Many people are subject to demonic harassment. Most of the time it is so…
The exhibition “En Route” at the Vatican Apostolic Library features historical artifacts and contemporary artistic interpretations. / Credit: Iacopo Scaramuzzi CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). As pilgrims make their way to Rome during the Jubilee Year, the Vatican Apostolic Library announced a new exhibition connecting historical journeys to modern pilgrimages through…
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null / Credit: Nungning20/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2025 / 05:30 am (CNA). A priest in South Korea is serving up bowls of rich Korean stew in Seoul via a restaurant ministry as a means to fight youth hunger in the nation’s capital. Father Gabriel Lee Mun-su launched Youth Mungan “out of a desire to…
Pope Francis delivers his catechesis during the Jubilee audience in the Paul VI Hall on Feb. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2025 / 06:06 am (CNA). Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion during a Jubilee audience at the Vatican’s…
Pope Francis speaks with Spanish clergy and seminarians on Jan. 30, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis discussed in a Jan. 30 audience with seminarians and formators from the ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain how his mother put up quite a…
