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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Cindy Wooden |Pablo Kay |Msgr. Richard Antall
Catholic groups are welcoming Pope Leo XIV -- the second pope from the Americas, and the first U.S.-born pontiff -- who was elected May 8, the second day of the papal conclave. Catholic Relief Services, the official humanitarian agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., released a statement moments after Pope Leo had delivered his "Urbi et Orbi" blessing.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gary Jansen |Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall
“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers,” wrote St. Pope Paul VI in “Evangelii Nuntiandi” (“In Proclaiming the Gospel”). “And if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.”Each liturgical season offers a new lens through which to encounter God in the rhythms of daily life. Advent invites us to long for light. Christmas stirs hope and the promise of new beginnings.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Carol Glatz |Ad rem
Golf has been a Sunday tradition in my life for a long time. Our pop never held a golf club in his hand to the best of my recollection, but his priest brother, Father John, played once a week for most of his life. When our uncle made his regular Sunday dinner visits to our house, our dad would instruct one of us to find whatever golf tournament was on TV. We were his remote control in those days.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Robert Brennan |Carol Glatz |Msgr. Richard Antall
Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during World War II and a Venezuelan religious sister who dedicated her life to education and the poor. The Vatican announced March 31 that the pope authorized the decrees March 28.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall
God is always merciful toward everyone, Pope Francis wrote. "He heals our wounds so that we can love each other as brothers and sisters," he said in the text he prepared for the midday Angelus prayer March 30. While the 88-year-old pope was back at the Vatican and had appeared briefly on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital March 23, the Sunday he was discharged, to offer his blessing, he was following doctors' orders to rest and did not make a televised or public appearance.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Ad rem
We’re in the middle of Lent. We edge ever closer toward the most profound week on the liturgical calendar, capped by the holiest day of the year. There is a lot to think about and a lot to pray over in the remaining Lenten season. So, it is only natural that I’m thinking about a movie series with a computer-animated bear in a winter coat and red hat. I am not going to shoehorn the premise of the “Paddington” movies into a treatise on Christian imagery as it pertains to the passion of Our Lord.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall
Pope Francis' condition showed "further slight improvement" in the previous 24 hours, the Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin Feb. 26. The "mild renal insufficiency" previously noted in the pope's condition "has receded," the bulletin said, and the results of a CT scan performed Feb. 25 showed a "normal evolution" of his pulmonary inflammation.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall |Scott Hahn
To die for marriage is to die for Jesus. Christian Marriage — the faithful, exclusive lifelong bond between one man and one woman — is essential to the Gospel (see Matthew 5:32, 19:3–9). That is the truth behind Pope Francis’ decree of Jan. 27 proclaiming that five Franciscan friars who died in 1597 were killed in odium fidei — in the hatred of the faith. The five martyrs were Spanish missionaries to the New World, serving among the native Guale people in territory that is now the state of Georgia.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Scott Hahn |Carol Glatz
Oscar Wilde once ironically described an acquaintance as “an excellent man” whom, he said, “has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”Adjusting Wilde’s aphorism, I would say that a Catholic institution like Opus Dei that has such fierce enemies must also have some friends who like it very much. A more direct line from Winston Churchill probably meant the same thing: “You have enemies? Good.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall
At more than 500 pages, Bruce Gordon’s “The Bible: A Global History” (Basic Books, $35) is really a history of Christianity written from the perspective of sacred Scripture. The Bible is the book, the author says with some hyperbole, that has left no one — believing or unbelieving — untouched.
