Faith

'Icon of mercy': Missionaries superior describes Blessed Teresa

August 28, 2016

ROME – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was a woman who truly felt wed to Jesus, and the freedom she experienced in loving him led her to radical poverty, a courageous outreach and an immense love for the poor, said the superior general of the order Mother Teresa founded.

Catholic mission set up to bring God to hipsters

August 28, 2016

WASHINGTON – The gray robes worn by the Conventual Franciscan friars may not be fashionable in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, but the religious men appear to be fitting in just fine in the heart of "hipster" country.

For Catholics choosing a new parish, it's location, location, location

August 28, 2016

WASHINGTON– The driving force behind Catholics' search for a new parish is location – most likely how close it is to their new home.

Pope asks Jesuits to educate diocesan clergy in practice of discernment

August 25, 2016

ROME – When it comes to the Christian life, too many seminaries teach students a rigid list of rules that make it difficult or impossible for them as priests to respond to the real-life situation of those who come to them seeking guidance, Pope Francis said.

Chilean homeless in tears at cathedral feast for Year of Mercy

August 23, 2016

SANTIAGO, Chile – Outside the cathedral, Ricardo Reyes, dressed in a black tracksuit, waited with nearly 250 other homeless people to pass through white metal barriers for a special dinner to celebrate the Year of Mercy. Inside the nave, 10 tables were covered with red and white tablecloths, waiting for the food and guests.

Vatican newspaper: 'Amoris Laetitia' is authoritative church teaching

August 23, 2016

VATICAN CITY –Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family is an example of the "ordinary magisterium" – papal teaching – to which Catholics are obliged to give "religious submission of will and intellect," said an article in the Vatican newspaper.

Mother Teresa knew what being unloved felt like, priest says

August 22, 2016

ROME – In the chapel of the first house Blessed Teresa of Calcutta established in Rome, Father Brian Kolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity talks about her life, mixing the concrete and even mundane with the spiritual and even mystical.

Mother Teresa embodied what Francis teaches

August 21, 2016

VATICAN CITY – If there is one person who immersed herself in the "peripheries" Pope Francis is drawn to, it was Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

Mercy received must be mercy shared, Pope says

August 21, 2016

VATICAN CITY – God’s mercy is infectious and must be shared with others, Pope Francis said.

Pilgrims crowd church where Mother Teresa once prayed

August 20, 2016

LETNICA, Kosovo – The thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the bright white Church of the Black Madonna this year were hoping to receive the gift of grace that one of its most famous parishioners once experienced.