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3 days ago · Nov. 19 — On the first-ever World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis eats lunch with 4,000 poor and people in need in Rome. Nov. 27–Dec. 2 — In another trip to Asia, Pope Francis travels to ...
3 days ago · CNA Staff, Jul 6, 2024 / 04:00 am. St. Maria Goretti, whose feast is celebrated on July 6, is one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church. Her powerful testimony of forgiveness ...
4 days ago · SPONSORED ARTICLES. Ahead of the eighth observance of the World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis in June urged Christians around the world to share in the suffering of the poor and to commune with them through the act of prayer. The Holy Father established the World Day of the Poor in 2016 at the end of the Church’s Jubilee Year of Mercy.
5 days ago · Caius, writing in 1574, describes these functions 'held to-day in the University church, but formerly, within our own memory, in the church of the Franciscans, twenty years before it was pulled down'.
3 days ago · The friars won the favour of Archbishop Stephen Langtdn, who when promoting the first novice in England to the Order of Acolytes called him ' Brother Solomon of the Order of the Apostles.' Alexander the master of the hospital of Poor Priests gave them a plot of ground and built them a chapel: as the friars could own no property, this was made over to the commonalty of the city, and the ...
1 day ago · When Father Andreani met a man wanting to donate a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, the idea arose to build a shrine in her honor. The church was begun in 1961 and dedicated in 1965. In 1975, Blessed Paul VI elevated the church to the status of basilica. The dome of the basilica is 100 feet in diameter and 55 feet high.
3 days ago · Aug. 2 is the feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Portiuncula, a particularly important devotion in the Franciscan tradition. It marks the day St. Francis of Assisi’s Portiuncula church, or “little portion” church was dedicated after Christ called him to “rebuild my church.”
