While the Marian site of Lourdes has long been a popular pilgrimage destination for those seeking healing, as 15,000 soldiers gather there this week for the 60th anniversary International Military Pilgrimage, it will transform into “the world capital of prayer for peace.”
With the support of the Knights of Columbus and the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, over 200 U.S. veterans, wounded warriors and active duty military men and women, came with their caregivers to the 60th International Military Pilgrimage as one U.S. delegation called “Warriors to Lourdes.”
Pope Francis announced he would make 14 new cardinals June 29, giving the red cardinal’s hat to the papal almoner, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan, among others.
Yago de la Cierva has become one of the most consequential players in World Youth Days, World Meetings of Families, and papal events in both Rome and around the world.
He’s on Twitter and Facebook; a U.S. producer is shooting a documentary about his life, and a renowned actor is writing a play about him. And yet still not many people know who Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is.
A Chilean bishop acknowledged the damage inflicted on survivors of clerical sex abuse and the mishandling of cases by church leaders in the country.
While millions of tourists throw a coin over their shoulder into Rome’s Trevi Fountain hoping to return to Rome one day, the money scooped out of the fountain each week offers more concrete hope to the city’s poor.
The funeral procession of toddler Alfie Evans passes near Everton’s stadium in Liverpool, England, May 14. The 23-month-old boy, who suffered a severe degenerative neurological condition, died April 28, some 10 days after his father, Tom Evans, had asked Pope Francis to help get him to Rome for treatment.
Despite holding the world record in the high jump, Javier Sotomayor kept his feet on the ground and didn’t try to clear the waist-high wooden barricade between him and Pope Francis.
As the world witnesses “another outburst of hatred and violence, which is once again bleeding all over the Holy Land,” the head of Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarchate called for prayers for peace.
