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Nov 26, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Mike Cisneros |OFM Cap

The Catholic Church must respond to cultural challenges facing marriage and family life with unity and compassion, Pope Francis said, and he called for a deeper integration of the Gospel into contemporary culture. "The challenges, problems and hopes that pertain to marriage and the family today are inscribed in the relationship between church and culture," he told students, professors and staff of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.

Nov 26, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Mike Cisneros |OFM Cap

The English historian Thomas Carlyle said that “history is the essence of innumerable biographies.” The saying aptly explains why I appreciate a monograph recently sent to me about the life of Edward Vattmann, a missionary priest and immigrant whose life reads like a mosaic of American Catholic history.

Nov 26, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |OFM Cap |Jonathan Luxmoore

“What we celebrate today is a love story.”That’s how Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Brian Nunes described the journeys of the seven men ordained as transitional deacons Nov. 23 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the final step before becoming priests. “This is the next logical step in these lives where much love has been received,” said Nunes, who presided the 9 a.m. Ordination Mass. “Now much love will be shared. What this love will look like in action only God knows.

Nov 26, 2024 | angelusnews.com | OFM Cap |Jonathan Luxmoore

The year was 1973. The place was the Capuchin Novitiate of San Lorenzo Seminary in Santa Ynez, California. I was a novice there when I was introduced to the life of Capuchin Father Solanus Casey by Father Columban Butler, a Capuchin chaplain at nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base. Father Columban had lived with Blessed Solanus, and over the course of my novitiate year he would share stories about his confrere. The common theme was his ministry to the poor and sick.