I am especially filled with joy this year because my path led me to here to Kansas City, Kansas.
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SPARC’s mission is to improve and include in 2025
The start of a new year is a wonderful time for personal renewal, increased hope and continued spiritual growth.
May the Jubilee Year be all we hope for
It helps me stop and notice what I so often overlook.
Jubilee year offers opportunity for indulgences, special graces
Holy doors in Rome and a pilgrimage to our own cathedral are wonderful ways to receive indulgences.
SEEK25 conferences in US, Germany energize young Catholics to share hope in Jesus
The excitement in the air was palpable as more than 17,000 Catholics descended on the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City Jan. 1-5 for SEEK25.
LA Palisades Fire destroys Corpus Christi Catholic Church, damages school
"Please keep praying for all those suffering in the wildfires sweeping through Southern California."
Families are ‘not alone’ in sorrow over deaths, injuries suffered in NOLA terror attack, Biden says
Saying he carried with him the sorrow of the nation for a "horrific act of terrorism" on New Year’s Day that claimed the lives of 14 people on Bourbon Street, President Joe Biden told grieving families at an interfaith prayer...
St. Peter’s Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it.
Washington’s new archbishop seeks to ‘know and understand this magnificent community of faith’
Hours after Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego was announced Jan. 6 as the new archbishop of Washington, the prelate praised his new archdiocese as "truly sacramental in the rich diversity of its traditions and perspectives."
Pope preaches ‘very strong bond’ between adoration and service
During the Holy Year 2025, Christians should deepen their spiritual lives through adoration and then transform their prayer into concrete acts of service, Pope Francis said.