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Michael Pakaluk

The gift of friendship with our Lord

Maureen Crowley Heil

Practicing 'Masika' this Lent

Scott Hahn

Eyesight to the blind

Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

Going without

Bishop Robert Reed

'Annunciation': Salvation and the words of the air

Dr. R. Jared Staudt

Can the Eucharist save civilization?

Nicaraguan president who jailed bishop is 'unbalanced,' pope says

American lay missionaries fan embers of Catholic faith in Ireland

Vatican accepts 'positio' in Mother Lange's cause; dicastery to review documents on her life

Cardinal launches 2023 Catholic Appeal

Cardinal O'Malley, Ukrainian Catholic leader to host prayer service for Ukraine

St. Mary's Center opens new Carolyn Lynch Children's Center

From Cardinal Seán's blog

History of the World: Part II

TV film fare -- week of March 26

TV program notes -- week of March 26

Nicaraguan president who jailed bishop is 'unbalanced,' pope says

Mar. 10 2023
JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has strongly persecuted the church in the country and jailed a prominent bishop, is "unbalanced,"...

American lay missionaries fan embers of Catholic faith in Ireland

Mar. 14 2023
KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Claire Guernsey was eager to share her deeply held faith with the restless audience of Irish schoolkids. The students, however, didn't share...

Vatican accepts 'positio' in Mother Lange's cause; dicastery to review documents on her life

Mar. 9 2023
MATTHEW LIPTAK, OSV NEWS

ARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) -- The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women,...

Polish bishops defend St. John Paul II, form independent commission to investigate 'full picture' of archives

Mar. 15 2023
PAULINA GUZIK, OSV NEWS

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- The bishops of Poland March 14 announced they will create a commission of experts to investigate cases of abuse of minors...

Franciscans in Holy Land advance next phase of Jerusalem's Terra Sancta Museum

Mar. 15 2023
TOM TRACY, OSV NEWS

JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- The priest-director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, or Custody of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem...

To be an apostle is to serve, not move up church's hierarchy, pope says

Mar. 15 2023
JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Being an apostle does not mean climbing up the church's hierarchy to look down on others but humbling oneself in a spirit of service,...

Cardinal launches 2023 Catholic Appeal

Mar. 17 2023
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

SALEM -- The annual Catholic Appeal is underway, with the theme "Faith in action starts with you." The Catholic Appeal supports the parishes, schools,...

Cardinal O'Malley, Ukrainian Catholic leader to host prayer service for Ukraine

Mar. 17 2023
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

JAMAICA PLAIN -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley and the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S., Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of...

St. Mary's Center opens new Carolyn Lynch Children's Center

Mar. 17 2023
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

DORCHESTER -- Hanging on the wall in the Carolyn Lynch Children's Center is a sign in shape of a compass rose. For Maura Letourneau, it represents...

From Cardinal Seán's blog

Mar. 17 2023

One of the suggestions made during the meetings of cardinals before the start of the last conclave was the possibility of the new pope having a cabinet...

Cardinal grants dispensation for St. Patrick's Day

Mar. 16 2023
GREGORY L. TRACY PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- Even though St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday in Lent this year, parishes and families in the Archdiocese of Boston planning their festivities...

Celtics' Grant Williams visits Catholic school for Read Across America Day

Mar. 10 2023
JACQUELINE TETRAULT PILOT STAFF

DORCHESTER -- The fifth-grade students at St. John Paul II Catholic Academy, Lower Mills Campus, knew they were going to have a special guest on March...