ROME 24/3– Day 11: Easter Sunday – With comments on the Risen Christ’s first visit, and a visual for priests about stoles
The sun rose on Rome at 6:52 and set at 19:37. The Ave Maria ought to have rung at 19:00. Apart from being Easter Sunday – Happy Easter! – it was the feast of St. Balbina and St. Benjamin, deacon … Read More →
Pope Francis: The resurrection of Jesus changes our lives completely and forever
Pope Francis delivers the Regina Caeli address on Monday, Apr. 1, 2024 / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Apr 1, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis said on Easter Monday that the resurrection of Jesus is not just a “happy ending” but is an event that “changes our lives completely and forever.” “Jesus broke through […]
Look up at Jesus amid the ‘terrible days we are living,’ Jerusalem Patriarch preaches at Easter Vigil (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, celebrated the Easter Vigil Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and called on the faithful to look to Jesus rather than focus on their own suffering. “The terrible days we are living have locked us in, they seem to have annihilated our expectations, to […]
Obelisk missing from St. Peter’s Square (CWN)
The ancient Egyptian obelisk that has stood in the center of St. Peter’s Square for centuries was missing on Easter Monday, with Vatican officials and Roman police unable to explain its disappearance.
Israel’s military withdraws from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital
A day after Pope Francis appealed for the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have pulled out of Gaza’s biggest hospital after a two-week operation. Read all
Pope Francis: The Resurrection of Jesus Changes Our Lives Completely and Forever
Pope Francis delivers the Regina Caeli address on Monday, Apr. 1, 2024 Pope Francis addressed a crowd of people in St. Peter’s Square from a window of the Apostolic Palace for Easter Monday, also known as Monday of the Angel.
Cocoa prices surge, but small Ivorian producers see no benefit
Cocoa prices tripled in the past year, hitting $10,000 per ton on the New York Stock Exchange. Yet, farmers in the leading cocoa-producing country, half below the poverty line, see no benefits from this price surge.
“Without faith, we couldn’t hold on,” say Catholics in war-ravaged Gaza
Ongoing bombings, a looming famine, and the absence of a ceasefire push the small Catholic Christian community in the Gaza Strip to the brink of despair.
April papal prayer intention: for the role of women (Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network)
The Pope’s April prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “that the dignity and immense value of women be recognized in every culture, and for the end of discrimination that they experience in different parts of the world.”
May we learn to feed Christ’s sheep, Anglican primate says to heads of other Christian churches (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, said in an ecumenical Easter letter to the heads of other Christian churches that “we have, time and again, turned bread into stones, wine into bitter gall, fire into torture and death.” “We have, over the centuries, turned on each other,” he continued. […]