Pilgrimage & Holy Sites

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (172+ words) He noted that this was particularly important this week when a major report ( Heart of the Neighbourhood, How the Church is Providing Essential Services in Every Part of the Country ) offered to the Prime Minister "has so misreported the contribution…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (688+ words) I haven’t stopped thinking about that question. The fact of his beatification tells us the Church believes Sheen to be a man of heroic virtue. Soon-to-be Blessed Fulton Sheen was certainly a man of faith. He had had a deep…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1547+ words) In a week when tech leaders said the artificial intelligence industry needs to slow its race to an uncertain future that some warn may be apocalyptic, Georgetown University hosted a Sept. 9 discussion on “AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s…...

32+ min ago   (404+ words) There are journeys taken to reach a destination – and there are journeys that invite change along the way. EfM: Pilgrimage, a new offering, is an invitation to the latter. Education for Ministry will offer three such pilgrimages in 2027–2028. “As EfM…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (895+ words) Sister missionaries pose in front of the Montpelier Temple during the open house tours. Attendees leave the Montpelier tabernacle on their way to tour the Montpelier temple. The exterior of the Montpelier temple is seen on Media Day, where guests…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (470+ words) A three-day gathering in Saskatoon brought Ukrainian Catholic catechists from across Canada together for formation, prayer, shared learning, and fellowship. From September 4–6, 2026, Ukrainian Catholic catechists from across Canada gathered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for a three-day formation meeting, “The Catechist Today:…...

55+ min ago   (612+ words) First, he restored—effective from Sept.1—full salaries to cardinals, senior officials, clerics and women and men religious working in the Holy See that had been reduced by Pope Francis amid a budget crisis during the Covid pandemic in March…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (376+ words) ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Library for the first time as pope on his birthday, Sept. 14, and announced plans for the construction of a new modern building in Vatican City to house the holdings of the…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1391+ words) “We must determine where the rupture actually occurred.”…...

14+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Study Group 7 says bishops’ visits to Rome should be instruments of missionary conversion, communal discernment, and greater co-responsibility in the Church. VATICAN CITY — For centuries, “ad limina apostolorum” visits — the periodic pilgrimage of diocesan bishops to the tombs of the…...