Day: June 5, 2022

Pentecost 2022: Full text of Pope Francis’ homily

Pope Francis delivered his homily from a wheelchair in front of the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on June 5, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 5, 2022 / 05:30 am (CNA). Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of Pentecost 2022, which was celebrated in St. Peter’s […]

Boy asks Pope Francis: ‘Can you come to Ukraine to save all the children?’

Pope Francis embraces a child during his meeting with participants in the Children’s Train initiative at the Vatican on June 4, 2022. / Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 05:35 am (CNA). Pope Francis had a poignant exchange Saturday with a young Ukrainian boy who asked him to visit Ukraine “to save […]

Pope Francis calls 100 days of war in Ukraine ‘negation of God’s dream’

Relatives, friends and comrades of Ukrainian soldier Eduardo Trepilchenko, who was killed on the Eastern front battling the Russian invasion , attend his funeral at St Michael’s Cathedral on May 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. / Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 07:04 am (CNA). Pope Francis condemned the war in […]

Dozens feared dead in attack on Catholic church in Nigeria

Photo illustration. / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 09:13 am (CNA). Gunmen have killed multiple worshipers Sunday at a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, according to state officials. Dozens of people, including children, are believed to have been killed, but there was no immediate official confirmation of the death total. A video […]

Older Child Baptisms on the Rise, While Infant Baptisms Decline…

By most metrics, participation in the life of the Church is trending downward in United States — Mass attendance, marriage rates, funeral rates even, are mostly on the decline. But while the number of U.S. infant baptisms is also dropping, another category of baptism seems to be defying the general trend. The number of older […]

How can we recover the sense of the sacred in our temples and shrines? …

We seem to have lost the ability to make new buildings which exude that ineffable sense of the “sacred” which can be rightly called the presence of the Almighty. Why is it that few of our churches built in recent decades intimate that the church building itself and the celebrations taking place within it are […]

“I have come to cast a fire on the Earth”…

What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at Pentecost! A feast like this challenges us because it puts to the lie a lazy, sleepy, hidden, and tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, I have come to cast a fire on the earth (Luke 12:49). This is a feast about fire, […]

Homily for the Solemnity of Pentecost 2022…

In the final words of the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus says something that can offer us hope and make us think. He tells his disciples: “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all I have said to you (John 14:26). “Everything,” […]