Is there a more unsettling day on the Christian calendar than Palm Sunday? The enduring quietude of Lent suddenly breaks, the somber music gives way to “All Glory, Laud, and Honor,” and we, the agents ...
Reading: Acts 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 15:26-27; 16: 12-15 Our problem with the Holy Spirit is our inability to form a proper image. That is, if one can even speak of having trouble ...
On the Holy Thursday of the Lent, twelve clergies sat in two rows in the front of the altar table in the St Jude’s Parish under the large cross. All twelve clergies were aged 50 or above and wore ...
The Holy Father asked for the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of Peace before praying his first Angelus in the square in Latin and urging his listeners to pray for the end of conflicts in different ...
The 193 flags, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, flutter outside the United Nations (UN). But two of them don't seem to fit in quite well — Palestine and the Holy See. A few blocks ...
With the conclave just a few days away, the pastor of a Maryland parish told OSV News he has "an enormous degree of confidence" in the papal selection process, having seen it from the inside in 2005 ...
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Pope Francis' visit to Indonesia and the signing of the Istiqlal Declaration last September were a crowning achievement of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and the Holy ...