Families learn how to foster vocations, nurture faith
They came from across the globe to learn how to build up what's been called the school of love and the domestic church.
Pope canonizes Junípero Serra, says faith is alive only when shared
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary, Blessed Junípero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive only when it is shared.
Be shepherds concerned only for God and others, pope tells U.S. bishops
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Acknowledging the real challenges and burdens the U.S. bishops face in their ministry, Pope Francis shared with them his own experience as a pastor and urged them to keep their eyes focused on Jesus and their hearts open to others.
Cardinal Robert Sarah highlights evangelizing role of families
PHILADELPHIA — Cardinal Robert Sarah had a message for the thousands of Catholics attending the World Meeting of Families: love to the end is possible.
Mesa’s oldest Catholic school poised to embrace long-term future
The latest school dedication in the Diocese of Phoenix almost couldn’t have happened at all.
Bishop Barron tells families to be God’s image for secularized society
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Being created in the image of God is a mission, an adventure and a command that each Catholic is called to carry out into the world and something we need to rediscover as people of faith living in today’s secularized culture, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles Sept. 21.
Wake up the World: Q&A with Sr. Maria Silva, OP
Sr. Maria Silva began working for a car dealership in the Bronx right out of high school. She was working her way through Fordham and studying to be a psychologist, hoping for a lucrative career. Instead, she became the youngest chief financial officer for the dealership at 23. In spite of great financial success, she felt drawn to the religious life.
Pope, ‘son of immigrant family,’ tells Obama he’s ready to learn in U.S. [VIDEO]
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope Francis introduced himself to President Barack Obama and all people of the United States as a “son of an immigrant family” arriving in the United States for the first time to learn from others and to share from his own experience.
Archbishop Chaput calls for return to Christian understanding of family life in opening Mass
PHILADELPHIA — Thousands of Catholics poured into the Pennsylvania Convention Center late Tuesday afternoon for the opening Mass of the World Meeting of Families, among them dozens of pilgrims from the Diocese of Phoenix.
Church leaders affirm commitment to family as world meeting kicks off
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Known as the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia will be “the city of family love” and the “world capital of families” during the four-day World Meeting of Families, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
