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Say yes to diversity and no to ideology, Pope says on Pentecost

May 25, 2021

The Holy Spirit’s gift of comfort and solace is meant to unite all men and women and not take sides with any ideology, Pope Francis said on Pentecost. Celebrating Mass May 23 at the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope said those who listen to the Holy Spirit are not “concerned with conservatives

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Pope institutes ministry of catechist, praising role in community

May 11, 2021

Calling for formal recognition of “those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis,” Pope Francis has instituted the “ministry of catechist.” “The Spirit is calling men and women to set out and encounter all those who are waiting to discover the beauty, goodness

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Pope launches monthlong recitation of rosary praying for end of pandemic

May 3, 2021

Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for Mary’s intercession for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. And he prayed May 1 that Mary would move people’s consciences “so that the enormous amounts spent to increase and perfect weapons are instead used

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Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage goes online for another year

April 23, 2021

This year’s Lac Ste Anne Pilgrimage is going online for the second year in a row. “This is a very sad and difficult decision to make,” Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith, the chair of the Lac Ste. Anne board of trustees, said in an April 23 statement. “COVID-19 remains with us, now with worrying variants. Furthermore,