via ABC News: In Los Angeles, Rosemary Farfan, 31, shared with the pontiff her struggles as a single mother to daughters Alyssa, 11, and Celeste, 8. She told ABC News that she and her daughters had stayed at Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children until June. The shelter had helped the trio find… Read More Pope Francis to Single Mom: Don’t Be Ashamed, You Are Brave and Respect Life

via AP: Pope Francis on Monday spoke by satellite with audiences in Chicago, Los Angeles and McAllen, Texas ahead of his upcoming US visit. The Pope asked a Chicago girl to sing after she spoke about using music to find comfort from bullying.  

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Here is a prayer from the closing of Laudato Si for those who are participating: God of love, show us our place in this world as channels of your love for all the creatures of this earth, for not one of them is… Read More Prayer for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

Check out this great video from the USCCB and CRS on creation care, featuring Fr. James Martin, Dr. Carolyn Woo, and Cardinal Peter Turkson:  

Pope Francis once again spoke about the need to move away from a legalistic mindset and to live out the faith in our daily lives, rather than growing complacent because we attend mass: “The literal observance of precepts,” explained Pope Francis, “will be fruitless if [said observance] does not change the heart and does not… Read More Pope Francis: Catholic Hypocrites Offer Counter-Witness, Bring Scandal

The central focus of Pope Francis’ papacy has been the poor. Over and over again, his words and his actions show that he wants a poor Church for the poor. His focus is sometimes contrasted with Pope Benedict’s focus on “the dictatorship of relativism” and the collapse of the Church in Europe. Of course, Pope… Read More Pope Francis and the Dictatorship of Relativism