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Archbishop Richard G. Henning

Resilient

Father Robert M. O'Grady

The Great Vigil

Scott Hahn

Something new

Maureen Crowley Heil

Learning from the Missions: Commitment to God's Plan Must be Total

Sister Nancy Usselmann

'The Chosen' Season Five sets the table for Holy Week

Father Joshua J. Whitfield

Scripture Reflection for April 6, 2025, Fifth Sunday of Lent

Pilgrimage sites host Jubilee Year '24 Hours for the Lord'

Lenten crispelli help preserve Italian tradition in Lawrence

Forming the future: Long-time teacher's lasting impact at St. Bridget School, Framingham

Annual Social Justice Convocation focuses on climate change

Ordination Class of 2025: Deacon Vincenzo Caruso

Haverhill parish offers support through Stephen Ministry volunteers

'Ludwig,' streaming, BritBox

Home Viewing Roundup for March 31, 2025

St. John Paul II's worldview spreads to new generations via camping, YouTube, travel

Young people, tech lovers connect with soon-to-be-St. Carlo Acutis

St. John Paul II's worldview spreads to new generations via camping, YouTube, travel

Apr. 4 2025
MARIA WIERING, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Backcountry camping, white water rafting and rock climbing are key draws for campers at Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic camp in Colorado's Rocky...

Greenland's only Catholic priest calls his 'rewarding, demanding' mission a 'dream job'

Apr. 4 2025
GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Father Tomaž Majcen, a Conventual Franciscan, is the only Catholic parish priest in Greenland, working alongside two fellow Franciscan...

St. Josemaría Escrivá tops the charts, a century after his priestly ordination

Apr. 4 2025
GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- On the 100th anniversary of his priestly ordination, St. Josemaría Escrivá is topping the Amazon charts. The Spanish saint's book...

Young people, tech lovers connect with soon-to-be-St. Carlo Acutis

Apr. 4 2025
ZOEY MARAIST, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Inside a century-old church in Toledo, Ohio, is a decidedly newer statue of a soon-to-be-saint. The image of Blessed Carlo Acutis depicts...

Pope is following doctors’ orders for his convalescence, Vatican says

Apr. 4 2025
CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his second week back at the Vatican after a long hospitalization, Pope Francis continued to follow his doctors' orders to...

Pilgrimage sites host Jubilee Year '24 Hours for the Lord'

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Quinn Cunningham often thinks to himself: "Wouldn't it have been awesome to be an apostle?" "Yeah, it would have been," Cunningham, a 25-year-old...

Pilgrimage sites host Jubilee Year '24 Hours for the Lord'

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Quinn Cunningham often thinks to himself: "Wouldn't it have been awesome to be an apostle?" "Yeah, it would have been," Cunningham, a 25-year-old...

Lenten crispelli help preserve Italian tradition in Lawrence

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

LAWRENCE -- "Like setting off an atomic bomb." That's how John Capriole described the reaction to the suggestion that there would be no crispelli...

Forming the future: Long-time teacher's lasting impact at St. Bridget School, Framingham

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

FRAMINGHAM -- Joan Bruce doesn't remember the name of every student in her 37 years of teaching at St. Bridget School in Framingham, but she remembers...

Annual Social Justice Convocation focuses on climate change

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

DORCHESTER -- Jesuit Father Andrea Vicini, chair of the Boston College Theology Department, describes the crisis of climate change in a way that may be...

Ordination Class of 2025: Deacon Vincenzo Caruso

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

This is the second article in a series profiling the six men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...

Haverhill parish offers support through Stephen Ministry volunteers

Apr. 4 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

HAVERHILL -- Elaine Barker has always considered herself "a very positive person." She's not the kind of person who lets things faze her, but this...

El Papa Francisco da su aprobación a tres nuevos santos, entre ellos la primera santa venezolana

Apr. 3 2025
POR JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- El Papa Francisco ha aprobado medidas en el camino para la canonización de tres beatos: un arzobispo católico armenio...

El Papa Francisco reza para que la gente mire menos las pantallas y se conecte más cara a cara

Apr. 3 2025
POR CAROL GLATZ, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- La tecnología debería usarse para mejorar la vida de la gente y para conectar a las personas como miembros de una...

El Señor siempre va en busca de los que están perdidos, dice el Papa

Apr. 3 2025
POR CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Incluso cuando una persona parece totalmente perdida e incapaz de encontrar un camino de regreso a Dios, el Señor ya...

En concentraciones, marchas y audiencias, activistas provida piden protección para los no nacidos y otras vidas vulnerables

Apr. 3 2025
POR GEORGE P. MATYSEK JR., OSV NEWS

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (OSV News) -- Casi cinco meses después de que los habitantes de Maryland votaran abrumadoramente a favor de consagrar el aborto...

10 millones de cristianos en EE.UU. en riesgo de deportación masiva, según informe católico-evangélico

Apr. 3 2025
POR KATE SCANLON, OSV NEWS

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Un informe conjunto entre organizaciones afiliadas a diferentes iglesias cristianas encontró que una parte significativa...

El Papa se mantiene estable; su infección pulmonar ha mejorado ligeramente, según el Vaticano

Apr. 3 2025
POR CAROL GLATZ, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — El estado del Papa Francisco sigue siendo estable, y una radiografía ha mostrado una ligera mejoría con respecto...

Sister Nancy Usselmann

'The Chosen' Season Five sets the table for Holy Week

Father Robert M. O'Grady

The Great Vigil

Archbishop Richard G. Henning

Resilient

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