Day: May 15, 2022

St. Gianna’s daughter planning to open spiritual pilgrimage center

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla, a pediatrician and daughter of Italian St. Gianna Beretta Molla, plans to open an international pilgrimage site and center in Springfield to help spread knowledge of and devotion to her parents and promote marriage and family life. “I learned from my saint mom and holy dad to have […]

Carmelite priest’s miracle is touching hearts and souls around the world

BOCA RATON, Florida — When Carmelite Father Michael Driscoll was a young man 50 years ago, he started reading and collecting articles about Father Titus Brandsma, one of Netherlands’ leading churchmen. A priest who had personally known Brandsma, also a Carmelite, told the young Driscoll how the Dutch priest loved to preach and to write […]

Book about villagers’ need for clean, accessible water spurs student action

SLIDELL, Louisiana — After reading “A Long Walk to Water,” a nonfiction novel written by Linda Sue Park, the eight seventh graders in Tess Veazey’s honors reading class at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Slidell sprang into action. Learning that clean and accessible water was a luxury to many residents of South Sudan, Veazey’s […]

Bishop condemns ‘abhorrently evil’ slaying of 10 at Buffalo supermarket

olice on scene at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022 in Buffalo, New York. According to reports, at least 10 people were killed after a mass shooting at the store with the shooter in police custody. / John Normile/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 15, 2022 / 06:16 am (CNA). Ten people were […]

UPDATE: Saints’ lives prove God’s love for all, pope says at canonization Mass

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The lives of the saints prove that holiness is not an unreachable goal accomplished by a select few but comes from acknowledging and sharing God’s love, Pope Francis said. “Our Christian lives begin not with doctrine and good works, but with the amazement born of realizing that we are loved, prior […]

Full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the canonization Mass of 10 saints

Canonization Mass on May 15, 2022 / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, May 15, 2022 / 05:40 am (CNA). On Sunday, Pope Francis declared 10 holy men and women to be saints of the Catholic Church before around 45,000 people during a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square. At the end of Mass, the pope led […]

New saints feature Muslim-Catholic pioneer, priest-journalist killed by Nazis

ROME – Declaring ten women and men to be saints, including a martyred monk considered a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim relations and a journalist-priest murdered by the Nazis, Pope Francis said Sunday that sainthood is not out of reach but is rather to be found “among the pots and pans.” Sainthood, Francis said, has been idealized […]

Married to a Saint: The Holy Marriage of St. Gianna and Her Husband, Pietro

Clockwise from top left: St. Gianna and Pietro Molla lived a holy marriage and were blessed with children. Pietro is seen with Pierluigi and Mariolina, in Courmayeur, Aosta, Italy, in the summer of 1958. St. Gianna enjoys motherhood. Daughter Gianna Emanuela and Pietro were honored to meet Pope St. John Paul II. St. Gianna was canonized […]