Very disturbing news out of Brazil tonight. According to Brazilian police, a homemade bomb was found at the Aparecida Shrine, where Pope Francis will visit on Wednesday. Please pray for the safety of the Holy Father and the pilgrims at World Youth Day in Rio. Please pray for peace throughout the world.
Pope Francis is mad as hell, and he isn’t going to take it anymore. After another Vatican Bank scandal emerged over the weekend with the arrest of an Italian bishop with close ties to the bank, Francis fired the bank’s top two managing officials, Paolo Cipriani, and his deputy, Massimo Tulli. Here’s more on this from Vatican Radio.
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, I thought it might be apt to share a Thanksgiving prayer from Mary Cronk Farrell: O Gracious God, we give you thanks for your overflowing generosity to us. Thank you for the blessings of the food we eat and especially for this feast today. Thank you for our home and… Read More A Thanksgiving Prayer
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops already have a busy agenda scheduled at their annual General Assembly in Baltimore. So it came as a surprise that Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced late last week that he had requested the bishops advance the canonization process of Dorothy Day at this week’s conference. Vatican norms require that… Read More Saint Dorothy Day?
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