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Category: World News

The Story Behind Mary Undoer of Knots

Mary, Untier of Knots or Mary, Undoer of Knots is the name of a Marian devotion. The painting by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner, of around 1700, is in the Catholic...

The Antivirus Called Hope. Easter Message from the President of SIGNIS

On Friday, March 27, Pope Francis delivered an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing to the world, acknowledging the devastation being caused by the coronavirus pandemic...

Italy: At least 10 priests have died of coronavirus, and 1 bishop is recovering

At least ten priests have died in Italy after contracting COVID-19. More than half of them were from the Diocese of Bergamo, a town outside of Milan in Lombardy. The...

Reception of holy communion on tongue to continue in Portland Archdiocese amidst wild spread of Coronavirus.

The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon on Monday affirmed its stance on the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue defying the risk of transmitting the coronavirus...

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Canon David Oakley has been named the next Bishop of Northampton

Canon David Oakley, Rector of St Mary’s College, Oscott, the largest seminary in England and Wales, has been named the next Bishop of Northampton. He succeeds...

Notre Dame Cathedral missed Christmas mass for 1st time in 200 years

Notre Dame Cathedral kept Christmas going even during two world wars — a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. Yet an accidental fire in peacetime finally stopped the...

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Pope Francis is 50 years a priest today

On 13 December 1969, just four days before his 33rd birthday, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now His Holiness Pope Francis was ordained a priest. His vocation dates back to 21...

Pope Francis opens Advent season with Congolese rite Mass, warns against consumerism

Pope Francis opened the season of Advent by warning against “consumerism, a virus that attacks the faith at its roots,” as he celebrated a festive Mass in the...

Texas: Blessed sacrament stolen from Holy Spirit parish.

Rev. Fr. Jose Morales, a priest of the Holy Spirit Parish in Horizon City, Texas has called for prayers and reparation after a tabernacle containing the Eucharist was...

Archbishop Nicolas Thévenin is new Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and Arab League

Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thévenin as the Apostolic Nuncio to the Arab Republic of Egypt. According to the Papal...