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1 day ago · In a formal ceremony before the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis released his document proclaiming the Holy Year 2025 and explaining the features he wants it to have in order to increase people's hope. Cindy Wooden. May 9, 2024. Pope Francis prays before formally delivering "Spes Non Confundit," ("Hope Does Not Disappoint"), his ...
1 day ago · Regarding the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion: “Amongst religiously committed Christians, just over 80 per cent believe that it only symbolizes the body and blood of Christ – which would be what many different Protestants and evangelical traditions hold . . . but then we also have significant numbers of Roman Catholics ...
18 hours ago · Reuters. Thu, May 9, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT · 2 min read. Pope Francis holds weekly general audience, at the Vatican. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis. started the countdown on Thursday to the ...
4 days ago · But Catholics must do more than the service of denouncing violations of basic principles of morality on both sides. The first thing Catholics must always do is pray and intercede. That’s why on Oct. 17 and 27, Pope Francis asked all Catholics to pray, fast and do penance for peace in the Holy Land.
3 days ago · A: Catholics, of course, can pray directly to God, the Holy Trinity. Vatican II, though, recognized the “close and indissoluble tie” that unites Mary to her divine son (“Lumen Gentium,” No. 53). Mary is intimately united to her divine son, and she is “our mother in the order of grace” (“Lumen Gentium,” No. 61).
1 day ago · The Holy Doors, which symbolise the doorway of salvation for Catholics, are only opened during Jubilee years. There are four in Rome -- in St. Peter's Basilica, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major ...
For Pope Francis, “synodality is a way of communicating and relating. It is the way he sees the three parts of the Church — the People of God, the College of Bishops, and the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ — in constant exchange together, all three parts listening.”.
