In Canada, new law could mean changing route of March for Life
Coming Feb. 1, no-protest zones will be around eight abortion facilities with smaller boundaries for their doctors. Hospitals and pharmacies also can apply to have "bubble zones" implemented.
Love is in the air: Pope Francis marries couple on flight during Chilean trip
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO IQUIQUE, Chile (CNS) — Love was literally in the air as Pope Francis performed an impromptu wedding ceremony at 36,000 feet aboard his flight in Chile.
World Day of the Sick Mass to promote healing, spiritual comfort
Richard Hannon, president of the Order of Malta in Phoenix, was once diagnosed with a serious blood disorder that prompted him to receive the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick three times. He said its properties are immense.
‘Machisimo’ culture blinds women’s leading role in society, pope says
PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru (CNS) — Society cannot look the other way and allow a culture that demeans the dignity of women to persist, Pope Francis said.
Feast of St. Timothy, Jan. 26
The son of a Greek Gentile father and Jewish mother, Timothy was converted to Christianity by St. Paul, who called him “my true child in faith.”
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Jan. 28
Thomas so shocked his noble Italian family when he entered the Dominicans about 1244 that his brothers imprisoned him for a year.
Feast of St. John Bosco, Jan. 31
Born to a poor family in Italy, this patron saint of editors and laborers is considered one of the great social saints.
Candlemas, or Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Feb. 2
Many folk legends are attached to this Irish abbess. However, one fact from her earliest biography in the seventh century remains unchallenged: She was superior of a double monastery — for nuns and monks — at Kildare in the years after St. Patrick’s death.
Feast of St. Blaise Feb. 3
This bishop and martyr lived in the fourth century in Turkey and Armenia. For a time Blaise lived in a cave to escape persecution.
Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, Feb. 8
Josephine Bakhita was born in 1868 in the Darfur region of what is now Sudan.
