The president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Bishop Mariano Crociata, expressed the commission’s view on the new “Return Regulation” approved June 17 by the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to unify and streamline procedures for the expulsion of individuals in an irregular situation (who are illegally present)…
Pope Leo XIV has recognised the heroic virtues of Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, the founder of a US religious order devoted to person-to-person ministry, and declared her venerable, advancing her cause for canonisation. Mary Teresa Tallon was born May 6, 1867, in Hanover, New York, to Irish immigrants. At age 19, she joined the Holy…
Pope Leo XIV presided on June 18 over the funeral rites for Cardinal Camillo Ruini, remembering him as a servant of the Church who “knew how to guide the people of God.” The funeral liturgy took place at the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica, two days after Ruini died late Tuesday, June…
Vice President JD Vance, appearing on ABC’s ‘The View’ to promote his newly released memoir on faith, was put on the spot from the first question, peppered for nearly an hour on Jeffrey Epstein, the economy, immigration and other issues facing the Trump administration. The appearance was notable because it marked a rare foray for…
Before Mother Maria Catherine Iannotti entered the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate as a Catholic religious sister, she was somewhat frightened by how serious their foundress, Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, looked in photos. Her perspective changed, however, when another sister encouraged her to keep Mother Tallon’s photo in her room and pray for her intercession…
Over twenty thousand adults and adolescents were baptised into the Catholic Church in France at Easter this year. The island of Ireland has roughly one tenth of France’s population, so an equivalent number here would be two thousand. I smiled when I read that the influx in France represents a ‘major challenge’ to the French…
In St Peter’s Square in Rome, the great colonnades of Bernini begin at either side of the Basilica and wrap around most of the square’s perimeter. In the mind of the architects, the body of the basilica was designed to symbolise the body of Christ, the dome symbolised Christ the head of the Church and…
Whoever finds his life will lose it; whoever loses his life will find it The Gospel Matt 10:37 [Jesus said:] “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:38 And whoever does not take up…
“He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.” There are moments in life when words fail, when our hearts ache under the quiet weight of disappointment, loss, fear or guilt. Sometimes we smile on the outside while silently wondering if anyone truly sees what we carry. But God sees. His love reaches into the…
Woody Allen was 90 recently. The milestone put me in mind of his oft-quoted quip, “It’s not that I’m afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Woody mixes comedy and tragedy often. He sometimes describes himself as a cross between Ingmar Bergman – the gloomy Swedish film director –…
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