March 13, 2025

Pope John Paul I walks at the Vatican in 1978. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, wrote in a June 21 article that Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, had hoped that Pope Paul VI would liberalize church teaching on artificial birth control, but when he didn't, the archbishop helped promote acceptance of "Humanae Vitae." (CNS file photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

John Paul I’s 33-Day Papacy

March 13, 2025
Though brief, Pope John Paul I’s papacy had a far-reaching influence on future Church leaders.
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This icon of the archangels is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to sponsor the families of the iconographers, who are now in Poland after fleeing Ukraine. (CNS photo/Nicholas Elbers, B.C. Catholic)

Praying with Icons

March 13, 2025
We’re used to communicating to God through words, but images have a special power.
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Basilica of St. Francis

The Franciscan Family: Who’s Who?

March 13, 2025
Women, men, married, single—they all seek to live the Gospel under the inspiration of St. Francis of Assisi.
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A group of Russian pilgrims prays during a rosary led by Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of Moscow, near a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli Hospital .

Pope’s chest X-ray confirms his improvement, doctors say

March 13, 2025
Pope Francis' condition continues to be stable and a chest X-ray "confirmed the improvements recorded in the previous days," his doctors said, but without saying his double pneumonia had cleared up completely.
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person riding a bike in the city,

Stewardship and Sustainability

March 13, 2025
St. Francis revered all creation as a gift from God, advocating for responsible stewardship of the earth. Embracing simplicity allows us to live in harmony with nature and future generations.
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The word "SLOW" painted on the pavement

Breathe the Name, Jesus

March 13, 2025
Let’s speak Jesus’s name with tender love at every Hail Mary in the rosary.
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