(Vatican Radio) Catholics across the world are preparing for the centenary of the Marian apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, on Saturday, May 13. On that day in 1917, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared for the first time to three shepherd children, Lucia Dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. She continued appearing to them the same day for the next 5 months until October 13. The message of the Virgin of Fatima is essentially one of repentance and conversion. Pope Francis who will be in Fatima for the occasion May 12-13, will celebrate the centenary Mass on Saturday at the Marian Shrine of Fatima, during which he will also declare Francisco and Jacinta saints.The spread of the message and devotion to Our Lady of Fatima across the world has been largely due to the efforts of the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF), an international association with millions of members and national centres in various countries.&nbs...
(Vatican Radio) Catholics across the world are preparing for the centenary of the Marian apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, on Saturday, May 13. On that day in 1917, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared for the first time to three shepherd children, Lucia Dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. She continued appearing to them the same day for the next 5 months until October 13. The message of the Virgin of Fatima is essentially one of repentance and conversion.
Pope Francis who will be in Fatima for the occasion May 12-13, will celebrate the centenary Mass on Saturday at the Marian Shrine of Fatima, during which he will also declare Francisco and Jacinta saints.
The spread of the message and devotion to Our Lady of Fatima across the world has been largely due to the efforts of the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF), an international association with millions of members and national centres in various countries.
Even the tiny Catholic community in Muslim-majority Pakistan is celebrating the Fatima centenary. The celebrations are being coordinated across the nation by the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF), Pakistan, led by its regional president, Mr. Robert Younas. Speaking to Vatican Radio from the WAF Regional Centre in Rawalpindi, he explained that the Pakistani Church is marking the Fatima centenary not on May 13 but the following day Sunday, at Masses across the country. He has more:
A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú. / Credit: Asociación de las Bienaventuranzas (Association of the Beatitudes)ACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).In the context of the recent news of the death of Ana Estrada, the first person to request and receive euthanasia in Peru, there is a contrasting story to tell on care for the dying in that country: that of a new Catholic hospital on the outskirts of Lima that provides palliative care, which extends the love of Christ to those in extreme poverty who are in the final stages of their lives.The beginning of the 'Misky María' HospitalIn 2021, Father Omar Sánchez Portillo, a priest known for his extensive charitable work in the district of Lurín (south of Lima) and founder of the Association of the Beatitudes, had the dream of building a center to serve, with the "sweetness of Mary," people in situations of abandonment and extreme poverty who have terminal illnesses...
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024. / Screenshot/public domainCNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated to rehabilitating gang-affiliated youth, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside 18 other recipients this afternoon. Boyle, ordained a priest in 1984, founded Homeboy Industries in 1992 while pastor of Dolores Mission, a Catholic church and school in an area that at one time had one of the highest concentrations of gang activity in Los Angeles. Today, Homeboy Industries claims to be the largest gang-intervention program in the United States.The successful ministry, which now operates nationwide, offers training and job skills to those formerly involved in gangs or in jail, as well as case management, tattoo removal, mental health and legal services, and GED completion.Wh...
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN's "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo" on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / ScreenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA).Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by "explicitly communist" outside forces. "There is an instrumentalization of what's going on in Gaza to advance an agenda," he said. "And that is to deconstruct our present world order at which the United States is considered the top of that order."Speaking on EWTN's "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo," Landry said that he had been walking through the encampment nearly daily, conversing with student protesters and other "outside agitators." While he said he believes that many of the protesters we...