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Get ready for the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint—complete with custom merch
Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 and developed an interest in Catholicism at a young age. Although his parents weren’t exactly ...
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Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...
The World from PRX9d
On this remote isle, a Saint Mary icon endured flames of war
Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...
The Manila Times on MSN13d
Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi
One store owner picked up a blessed icon the first time she went to the shrine and ... Particularly devout to the eucharist ...
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Mark Katrick faith column: The cross is a reminder of the 'amazingness of transformation'
As one who attended Catholic schools from the first to the 12th grade, I participated regularly in The Stations of the Cross, the 14-step devotion that commemorates Jesus Christ’s last day on ...
Catholic News Agency2d
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Over the figures in the picture are some Greek letters which form the abbreviated words Mother of God, Jesus Christ, Archangel Michael, and Archangel Gabriel respectively. The icon was brought to ...
Time15d
Crowds Flock to Newest Catholic Saint in Assisi—a Millennial Teen
One store owner picked up a blessed icon the first time she went to the shrine and ... Particularly devout to the eucharist ...
Popular Science29d
Where are St. Patrick’s remains? It’s a hot debate.
You don’t have to be Irish or even Catholic to celebrate Ireland’s patron ... or other possessions of lost loved ones or icons. “This kind of a veneration of the bodies of revered ancestors ...
National Catholic Reporter19d
Pope Francis appears in public, returns to Vatican after long hospitalization
While he did not go inside, the pope met Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, the basilica's archpriest, and gave him with flowers to place at the altar of Francis' favorite Marian icon. Pope Francis ...
Fox News19d
Pope Francis makes 1st public appearance in five weeks, returns to the Vatican
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, using a wheelchair and ... of flowers to be placed in front of the Salus populi Romani icon. Before being discharged from the hospital, the 88-year-old ...
Catholic News Agency2d
The Four Marian Dogmas
The Catechism of the Catholic Church ponders the deeper meaning of the virgin bride and perpetual virginity (499-507). It also maintains that Jesus Christ ... "eschatological icon of the Church ...
Carlo Acutis: Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint
Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint - The London-born teen shows faithful ‘it’s possible to love Jesus while being a regular youth’ ...