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July 2022

July 25

God's Word on Sunday: Earthly concerns don’t come before God

July 25, 2022

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) July 31 (Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23; Psalm 90; Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11; Luke 12:13-21) The author of Ecclesiastes does not seem like the sort of person one would want to invite to dinner or to a party. His voice is wearied, passionless and a bit cynical. Nothing seems to interest or excite him.

When love moves life’s story forward

July 25, 2022

Writing, for me, is both a part of how I make my living and how I make sense of my living. My summer reading has coincidentally connected around a theme that, in the end, a life is just a collection of stories.

Papal apology comes on a day full of emotions

July 25, 2022

The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Maskawacis powwow grounds.

July 26

Reconciliation: One reality, one soul, one people

July 26, 2022

The full text of Pope Francis' speech delivered to Indigenous peoples and members of the parish community of Sacred Heart Church in Edmonton, Alberta, July 25, 2022.

Reconciliation at the core of the Christian faith, Pope Francis says

July 26, 2022

At Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in downtown Edmonton, Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for the Catholic Church to realize its destiny as the Church of reconciliation.

Guatemalan bishops warn against political manipulation

July 26, 2022

Ahead of Guatemala's upcoming election season, the country's bishops said religious gatherings in the coming months should "not fall into the temptation of mixing political propaganda with apparent prayer."

Children of a history to be preserved, authors of history to be written

July 26, 2022

The full text of the homily Pope Francis delivered at the Mass celebrated at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, July 26, 2022.

Each of us has a unique history to preserve, Pope Francis says at stadium Mass

July 26, 2022

At a Mass celebrating the feast of Jesus’ grandparents, Pope Francis urged those filling Edmonton’s Commonwealth to ground their understanding of history in the reality of those to whom they owed life itself.

July 27

We all need the healing of Jesus

July 27, 2022

The full text of Pope Francis' homily given at the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage July 26, 2022.

Pope Francis comes as a pilgrim to Lac Ste. Anne

July 27, 2022

Like generations of pilgrims before him, Pope Francis came to the water’s edge at Lac Ste. Anne seeking healing — not his healing, ours.

July 28

Maple Leaf a sign of open and inclusive communities

July 28, 2022

The full text of the speach given by Pope Francis at Citadelle de Quebec July 27, 2022.

Canada a model of peace, Pope Francis tells Quebec audience

July 28, 2022

Pope Francis has arrived in Quebec with the same message he has tried to share with Indigenous Canadians in the West — that Christ wants to be incarnate in every culture, in Indigenous cultures, Quebecois culture, Canadian culture.

Brampton park named for slain defender of persecuted Christians

July 28, 2022

Shahbaz Bhatti, declared Servant of God by Pope Francis in 2012, has a special place in the hearts of thousands of Pakistani Canadians who fled their country to find safety and freedom of religion here.

Editorial: The proof is in the action, despite what media will tell you

July 28, 2022

The muting of approval following Pope Francis’ wholesale, emotional, and historic apology on Canadian soil for the “evil” done to Indigenous people has come in two forms.

Church must face the truth, says Pope Francis

July 28, 2022

For Vaughan Nicholas there were tears well before Pope Francis began to speak. Waiting for Mass at the National Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre east of Quebec City to begin, he said, “I’m hoping I will actually feel something.”

Faith, action, courage will move reconciliation forward, Pope Francis says

July 28, 2022

In the face of sin and failure, the temptation to wallow in despair and do nothing comes from the devil, Pope Francis said.

A journey from failure to hope

July 28, 2022

The full text of the homily delivered by Pope Francis at Mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec July 28, 2022.

We are instruments of the Spirit’s fruitfulness

July 28, 2022

The full text of the homily given by Pope Francis at solemn vespers celebrated in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Quebec July 28, 2022.

Pope Francis poses three challenges to Canada at Quebec vespers service

July 28, 2022

If Canadian Catholics were looking for a roadmap to reconciliation, Pope Francis laid it out for them at a vespers prayer service in Quebec City’s exquisite Notre Dame Basilica Cathedral on a rainy Thursday evening.

July 29

Pope Francis says he’s been enriched’ by Canada’s Indigenous

July 29, 2022

On the final day of Pope Francis’ pilgrimage of penance, one of healing and reconciliation, he says it is he who has been “enriched” by the experience.