Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Fourth Sunday of Advent: Making room for Emmanuel

Scripture for Life: Perhaps the lesson of Advent is that it’s not so much we who are waiting, but God who comes to our door and appears in dreams, asking, “Will you, like Joseph, adopt my plan? Will you make room for Emmanuel in ways you’ve never imagined?”

Vigano Issues Prayer Request As Battle Against Demons Intensifies

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Catholic immigrant advocates reject claims of facilitating illegal crossings

NEW YORK – Immigrant advocacy organizations in Texas say they have not yet been contacted by state Attorney General Ken Paxton after he pledged to launch an investigation this week, at the request of the governor, into the alleged role of non-governmental organizations in illegal border crossings. Gov. Gregg Abbott called for the investigation on Dec. […]

Mother Teresa’s nuns thank Pope for naming birthday award for her

MUMBAI – Pope Francis turns 86 today, but instead of receiving presents he’s going to be doling them out. In a small ceremony today at the pope’s Vatican residence in the Casa Santa Marta, Francis will bestow a small sculpture symbolizing what’s called “Mother Teresa’s caress for the world’s poor,” intended as a form of […]

Congo bishops call for mercy, peace ahead of pope’s visit to ‘bruised’ country

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called for reconciliation and peace in the country ahead of the apostolic visit of Pope Francis early next year. Francis is scheduled to arrive in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, on January 31 for a five-day visit that will also take him to South […]

Pope returns Greece’s Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will send back to Greece the three fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures that the Vatican Museums have held for two centuries, in the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution of artifacts to their countries of origin. In announcing the decision Friday, the Vatican termed the […]