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Easter: The Feast of Humility


March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord: The Easter experience is one that unfolds slowly and deliberately.

Cardinal leads Holy Week prayer vigil for recently martyred Christians

Catholics gather in Rome’s Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island on Holy Tuesday, March 26, 2024, for a prayer vigil honoring Christians who have been killed for their faith in recent years. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA).

Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, presided over the vigil on March 26 in St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island.

Gaza’s Parish Priest Yearns to Return to His Beleaguered Flock

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Superstition is a sin. And it’s more common than Catholics might think.


Catholics: Think twice before you bury poor St. Joseph upside down in your front lawn when trying to sell your house.

Feel like you ‘failed’ Lent? God is still close to you.


Despite all my prayers and preparations, I struggled to commit to a single Lenten promise for 40 days. Does this mean I failed at Lent?

Confession: Offer It, and People Will Come

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Full Text: Pope Francis’ Easter message to the Catholics in the Holy Land


“Easter, the heart of our faith, is all the more significant for you who celebrate this feast in the very places where our Lord lived, died and rose again,” Pope Francis writes to Catholics of all rites living in the Holy Land.

Pope Francis: Love is patient. But what does that really mean?


In his cycle of catechesis on virtues, Pope Francis calls us to emulate Christ’s patience, saying that “patience is not only a need, it is a calling: if Christ is patient, the Christian is called to be patient.”

Behind the scenes at the Passion Play of Oberammergau

It all started with a plague, a vow, and a seeming miracle. Nearly 400 years later, the inhabitants of this small Bavarian village are still fulfilling the promise their ancestors made to God

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