Holy Year 2025 coordination assigned to New Evangelization
The Holy See Press Office announces today that Pope Francis has entrusted Holy Year 2025 preparations to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization. Read all
‘This changes everything’: observations about the current situation in Church and the State
God lets a crisis in society and in the Church take place so that mankind can amend its ways and find its way back to Him. Just as in our personal lives, it sometimes takes a shocking event to wake us up and change our ways.Read More
Pope decries Italy’s ‘demographic winter’ of falling birth rates, family size
ROME – On the Catholic feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis criticized his adopted country’s “demographic winter,” saying an increasing preference not to have children is doing damage not just to families but to the country and society at large. When thinking of the family, “a concern comes to mind, a real concern, at […]
Pope Francis encourages married couples to rely on Christ in letter for Feast of the Holy Family
Pope Francis greets a couple during a meeting with members of the Retrouvaille marriage ministry Nov. 6, 2021 / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 26, 2021 / 04:10 am (CNA). On the Feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis encouraged married couples to rely on the strength of Christ and his graces as they weather […]
Open Letter to Confused Catholics: Chapter 15
“The Marriage of the Church and the Revolution” The Revolution, it has been said, expresses “the hatred of all order that has not been established by man, and in which he is not both king and god.” At its origin we find that pride which had already been the cause of Adam’s sin. The revolution […]
Christmas Season 2021: Rejoice in Christ’s birth – Archbishop Martin
The birth of Jesus is the most powerful sign and message of hope in a world darkened by the shadows of fear and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. We bring you the voices of religious leaders and heads of Christian charitable organizations as they look to a future in which “No one is saved […]
Pope at Angelus: sustain, defend and safeguard the family
Greeting pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Pope Francis calls on us to remember our family roots and to realise that each day we learn how to be a family. He looks at how the Holy Family of Nazareth offers examples on how to sustain and safeguard […]
Pope to couples: God always with you in joys and difficulties of married life
Pope Francis sends an open letter to married couples as part of the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, and reminds them to turn to Jesus who is always near in all the ups and downs of daily family life. Read all
Holy Family Sunday: God’s Plan for Marriage and Family Life
Bartolome Esteban Murillo ‘The Holy Family,’ c.1660-70 User’s Guide to Sunday, Dec. 26
Cultivating the True Joy of Christmas
Carlo Maratta ‘Madonna and Child’ Christ is the reason for great joy.