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Europe and Africa react to announcement of papal journeys

Europe and Africa react to announcement of papal journeys

Gratitude and enthusiasm pour in from civil and ecclesial authorities in the var...

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One year on from UK aid cuts: Investing in aid creates peace

One year on from UK aid cuts: Investing in aid creates ...

The Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Catholic Agency for Overseas ...

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Dozens missing as Brazil faces heavy rains

Dozens missing as Brazil faces heavy rains

Heavy rains in southeastern Brazil have left at least 30 people dead, with dozen...

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Lenten Retreat: Bishop Varden reflects on 'Glory'

Lenten Retreat: Bishop Varden reflects on 'Glory'

Bishop Erik Varden delivers his seventh reflection at the Spiritual Exercises in...

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How Not to Worry

How Not to Worry

Worry is the air in a world of unknowns. We breathe it in as if it were the life...

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The Monastic Edge on Caring for the Sick

The Monastic Edge on Caring for the Sick

The most striking way I have seen the Church with the sick is in the person of P...

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The Time Has Come for Easter Union

The Time Has Come for Easter Union

On November 29, 2025, on the eve of the Feast of St. Andrew, Ecumenical Patriarc...

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Why Fast?

Why Fast?

In the daily lectionary readings recently, we heard the prophet Isaiah explain t...

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Weekly Goals for Lent

Weekly Goals for Lent

Our liturgical year’s first slice of Ordinary Time has given way to the great se...

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Pope at Angelus: This Lent, make your life a unique masterpiece

Pope at Angelus: This Lent, make your life a unique mas...

During his Sunday Angelus address on this first Sunday of Lent, Pope Leo XIV say...

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Pope Leo: Peace is urgently needed, requiring responsible decisions

Pope Leo: Peace is urgently needed, requiring responsib...

After the Angelus prayer, the Pope strongly renewed his appeal for the silencing...

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Pope to Salesians: Continue your service in areas of poverty and war

Pope to Salesians: Continue your service in areas of po...

After celebrating Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Castr...

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The suspended lives of Ukrainian refugees

The suspended lives of Ukrainian refugees

Four years into the conflict, around ten million Ukrainians live away from their...

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Lenten Retreat Preacher opens Spiritual Exercises in the Vatican

Lenten Retreat Preacher opens Spiritual Exercises in th...

The Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV, Cardinals residing in Rome, and...

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Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Purified by God’s Grace & Personal Effort

Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Purified by God’s Grace...

Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four...

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What Helps Us Choose Between Two Goods?

What Helps Us Choose Between Two Goods?

There are many times in our lives when we must make decisions between competing ...