The new pontiff met with journalists and members of the media for the first time on Monday, May 12 — one of his first acts as ...

“It will be,” he wrote, “a new Pentecost that impels us ... s ability to generate interest in the Church from those on the outside was a sign of his “missionary style.” ...

On Feb. 28, writing from his Gemelli hospital room in Rome during his final illness, Pope Francis sent a message to professors and students at Rome's Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm saying ... the ...

Resurrection, for Romero, is something we experience as a community—something already clear from his emphasis on Pentecost. And the church is given ... Romero quotes Mark’s Gospel and the ...

For Pope Francis, the liturgy both defied easy definition, and yet could also be encapsulated in just a couple of sentences: "It is an act that founds the whole Christian experience and, therefore, ...

25 Baptism in the Church 1226 From the very day of Pentecost the Church has celebrated ... about in each newly baptized person. 1235 The sign of the cross , on the threshold of the celebration ...

"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of ... And on the cross it showed itself through a new sign: "One of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came ...

Fortunately, he was saved by some members of the Church of Pentecost at the Nii Okaiman District. He was taken to a rehab center and discharged after a year. “All I have to say is that God bless ...

COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but ...