PHOTOS: Palm Sunday Procession in Holy Land Celebrates ‘Joy in Being Christians’
Credit: Marinella Bandini Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, gives the final blessing with the relic of the holy cross at the end of the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage to Jerusalem on March 24, 2024. Faced with such significant absences, those present not only responded with closeness in prayer but also with […]
The Annunciation should be a holy day of obligation
Shouldn’t we all be going to Mass on the day that marks when God took on human flesh?
The Historical Origins of Veronica’s Veil: Inside the Cloth Relic of Jesus’ Holy Face Wiped on Calvary
In Vatican City, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, an extraordinary liturgy takes place at St. Peter’s Basilica: the display of a revered relic known as “Veronica’s Veil.” This relic is deeply tied to the Stations of the Cross, depicting a moment where a woman named Veronica wipes Jesus’ face with a cloth as he […]
Holy Week Prayers for Princess Catherine, King Charles and All Who Are Sick…
The monarchy is a fixture of life in Britain. We record our history through the reigns of monarchs; we prefix, where appropriate, our public institutions with a royal title; and we follow the lives of prominent members of the royal family with genuine affection, a sense of pride, and sometimes almost-fanatical interest.
Holy Week, the Annunciation and St. Dismas…
Happy feast of the Good Thief! (More or less.) There are no feast days observed during Holy Week. When March 25 falls during Holy Week, as it does this year, the great feast of the Annunciation is delayed to the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday. Holy Week and the Easter Octave take precedence over all…
Cardinal Pizzaballa became the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 2020. Since then, his rise as ‘papabile’ has been meteoric…..
“It will be a difficult Easter,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Italian television last week as he offered a grim assessment of the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Gaza. Calling on the international community to quickly halt the Israel-Hamas war, he said he was thinking of the “loneliness of Jesus in Gethsemane, which is now shared […]
Vatican and German bishops meet for ‘positive’ talks on heterodox Synodal Way
A joint statement from the Vatican and the German bishops said the assembled prelates sought to identify ‘differences and convergences’ between the German Synodal Way and Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality.
Holy Week Prayers for Princess Catherine, King Charles and All Who Are Sick
Leon Neal Catherine, Princess of Wales, stands on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the May 6, 2023, coronation of King Charles III in London. As St. John Paul II prayed, ‘Dear friends who are ill, may the Holy Virgin present to her Son the offering of your sufferings, in which Christ’s face on the […]
From 1958: How would Hemingway, Waugh or Greene have told the story of a dead dog?
In 1958, Joel Wells of Chicago’s “The Critic” contributed a somewhat unique story to America. How, he wondered, would some of our most famous authors tell the story of a dog that had been hit by a. car?
Vatican and German bishops meet for ‘positive’ talks on heterodox Synodal Way
A joint statement from the Vatican and the German bishops said the assembled prelates sought to identify ‘differences and convergences’ between the German Synodal Way and Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality.Read More