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Pope Leo XVI warns against ‘selling yourself to the first bidder’

3 days ago | cruxnow.com | Charles Collins |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to not delay in pursuing their faith during his Wednesday General Audience. He was speaking about the parable on the laborers in the vineyard Jesus gives in the Gospel of Matthew, when the landowner hires people at different hours of the day but gives them all the same wages.
Catholic priest among 700 dead from floods in Nigeria

3 days ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Flash floods that swept through some communities in Nigeria’s Benue State have killed over 200 people with 500 more still missing. Authorities say there is no hope any of the missing might still be found alive. Father James Omeh, the he parish priest of Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church in Gulu in Niger State in Nigeria, died on May 25 when his vehicle was swept away by floodwaters along the Lapai-Gulu Road near Duma village. A woman travelling with him was also killed. “Rev.
What discernment was to Francis, community is to Leo

3 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Nirmala Carvalho |Ngala Killian Chimtom

ROME – Early on in Pope Francis’s papacy, it became clear that “discernment” would be one of his buzzwords, and the Ignatian concept went on to become a bedrock of his Magisterium and pastoral decision-making process. Discernment is a loaded term for the Jesuits, carrying with it a specific interpretation and certain rules for how to exercise it according to Ignatian spirituality, as laid out by St. Ignatius in his famed Spiritual Exercises.
Anti-Christian incidents in India state of Odisha trouble Church leaders

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Nirmala Carvalho |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima

MUMBAI, India – In India, two anti-Christian incidents in the state of Odisha have disturbed the peace-loving Christian community, which has already been traumatized by harassment by rightwing extremists. On Sunday, Sister Rachana Nayak was travelling with four women candidates and two male youths from Odisha when she was intercepted by Bajrang Dal activists on a train.
Pope Leo extends olive branch to Jews, sends subtle message on Gaza

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Eduardo Lima |Ngala Killian Chimtom

ROME – As with any new papacy, there is a risk in these early days of over-interpreting every word or action from Leo XIV, and while that is real, when it comes to current Vatican-Jewish relations, there isn’t much that he can say or do on the issue right now that does not carry at least some subtext.
950 locations in Nigeria’s South East now occupied by Jihadist Fulani herdsmen

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Although the uprooting of Christians from their lands has historically been an issue for Nigeria’s northern states, a fresh report by the Catholic –inspired NGO – the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety – has revealed Jihadist Fulani herdsmen are now overrunning Christian communities in the country’s South East.
Latin American bishops say the region’s Church must be synodal

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Ngala Killian Chimtom

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – One word – synodality – dominated the general assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELAM), which gathered in Rio de Janeiro the presidents and secretary-generals of all bishops’ conferences in Latin America and the Caribbean between May 26-30.
Vocal prayer is fragile; meditative prayer is at the center

6 days ago | cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Ngala Killian Chimtom

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure waiting for them. We oftentimes think of the human soul as the microcosm and the universe as the macrocosm, but these thoughts are inversed and misplaced. It is the human soul searching for God that is the true macrocosm.
The deep structural reform awaiting Leo XVI beneath the Becciu soap opera

6 days ago | cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen |Christopher R. Altieri

ROME – For the outside world, it’s perhaps Pope Leo’s pleas for cease-fires in Gaza and Ukraine that have attracted the most attention since his election just over three weeks ago. For Catholic insiders, all manner of papal acts have generated reaction, from his sartorial touches, his use of sung Latin in public prayer, and even his few personnel moves.
Franciscans honor Bartholomew I, Leonardo Boff, and other for their care of our Common Home

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima |Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Order of Franciscan Friars Minor (OFM) in collaboration with the Pontifical Antonianum University held the presentation of the Laudato Si’ Awards on May 30, coinciding with the centenary of the Canticle of the Creatures by Saint Francis of Assisi and 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’.