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Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City replica
WE all know Rome wasn’t built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave...
Christianity without the cross is ‘sterile’, Pope says in Slovakia
FALLING into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that...
Peru’s rebel leader Guzman who targeted the Church, dies in prison
Abimael Guzmán, founder of Peru's violent Shining Path insurgency, who treated the Catholic Church as one of his main enemies,...
Horrors of Holocaust must not be forgotten, Francis tells Slovak Jews
THE violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to blasphemy, Pope Francis said...
Warmly welcomed in Hungary and Slovakia, Francis encourages Christian leaders to unite
HUNDREDS of men, women and children gathered on the tarmac of Bratislava international airport on Sunday to welcome Pope Francis...
Faith sustained this New York City fireman through the harrowing events of 9/11
WHEN the last days of August roll around every year, that’s when the memories start to return to Thomas Damore....
The Eucharist is a source of joy, God’s presence, speakers tell global congress
THE ultimate purpose of the Eucharist was mission, Mary Healy, a professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary...
Global Christian leaders join forces to warn about the world’s climate crisis
Pope Francis has joined two other global Christian leaders in an unprecedented warned that the world is facing a critical...
Student flash mob 2200-strong marched and sang to church steps to open Eucharistic Congress
By Jim Fair A FLASH mob of 2200 students from six schools waving a Eucharistic flag and singing as one...
Priest on the 9/11 frontline recalls chaos at ground zero
FATHER Kevin Smith, a veteran fire chaplain, trauma counsellor and loyal friend to scores of active and retired firefighters in...
Pressure builds on Australia to boost refugee intake as Pope calls for welcome and protection of fleeing Afghans
POPE Francis has issued a global call for countries to welcome and protect vulnerable Afghans fleeing their homeland. "In these...
South Korean diocese says remains of first Catholic martyrs recovered
THE mortal remains of the first three Korean Catholic martyrs have been recovered more than two centuries after their deaths,...
Pope Francis speaks in rare, wide-ranging interview on latest Motu Proprio, China, German bishops, Vatican corruption
By Larissa Lopez, translated by Virginia Forester IN his interview with Spanish journalist Carlos Herrera on the COPE Radio Network,...
Pope Francis calls for prayer, fasting for Afghanistan
POPE Francis has called on Christians to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, especially women and children, the victims...
Two bombs at Kabul airport kill at least 60 people, more than 100 wounded
ISLAMIC State has taken responsibility for a deadly bombing attack at Kabul airport after days of terror attack warnings from...
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway
TWO Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan as they were returning home to the...
Australian veterans in pain as Afghanistan falls to Taliban
VETERANS chaplain Deacon Gary Stone says he is providing pastoral support to hundreds of Australian ex-soldiers experiencing deep pain and...
Centennial of a murder – the priest, the Klan and a wedding remembered
ONE hundred years ago, at the height of the Spanish Flu pandemic, Irish Father James Coyle was shot and killed...
Catholic aid on its way after Haiti flattened by deadly quake
THE death toll from the earthquake in Haiti has climbed sharply with at least 1200 dead and thousands more injured....
Thousands flee as Taliban seize Kabul, Pope Francis prays for Afghanistan’s ‘battered population’
PLEASE get me and my family out of here, a former interpreter to Allied forces pleaded from the Afghan capital,...
Pope mourns loss of murdered French priest allegedly killed by Nantes Cathedral fire suspect
POPE Francis offered his condolences for the death of a French priest to French-speaking faithful at his weekly general audience...
Environmental leaders say U.N. climate change report can spur prayerful action
AMADOU DIALLO, a program manager for Catholic Relief Services in his native Senegal, knows from talking with the farmers and...
Gettysburg address to young Catholics – search for God’s calling
AT a vocational discernment gathering of the Neocatechumenal Way in the US recently, more than 10,000 participants were encouraged to...
Prayer, action needed to confront terror in Mozambique, missionary says
THE suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in Mozambique fleeing war and persecution requires a commitment by the international...
Musicologist hopes to reconstruct 12-century organ from Bethlehem church that survived crusades
FROZEN in time, like a “musical Pompeii,” the 221 remaining original organ pipes from the Church of the Nativity in...
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