In the run-up to the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis appealed to the world's Christians to become joyful heralds of hope in a world marked by fear and despair.
"Each of us needs hope in our lives, at times so weary and wounded,
The world is in great need of hope and patience, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience.
Those who are patient "are weavers of goodness. They stubbornly desire peace, and even if others are hasty and would like everything straight away, patience
In the midst of the COVID lockdowns, columnist Simcha Fisher lost her father. Yet his death, funeral and burial just before Easter 2020 gave her a renewed sense of the firm ground of God’s presence. In this article she talks about how
Hope is patient, concrete and extraordinary in that it can change everything, the papal preacher said.
Hope "is the opposite of impatience, of haste, of 'everything immediately.' It is the antidote to discouragement. It keeps yearning alive," Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa told Pope Francis
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (OSV News) -- A decrease in religious belief remains a "significant challenge" in cultivating religious vocations, said a vocations expert at a recent conference. Diocesan vocations directors continue "to work against a culture of secularism in which the purpose and
Are you ready for a new podcast!? Sister Josephine Garrett, a licensed counselor and notable author and speaker, has recently launched “Hope Stories with Black Catholics.” In an interview with Father Patrick Briscoe, Sister Josephine noted the connection between her work within
The Holy Year 2025 should focus on "restoring a climate of hope and trust" after the coronavirus pandemic and helping people repair their relationships with God, with each other and with the Earth, Pope Francis said.
Amid suffering and despair, further darkened by the coronavirus pandemic, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East urged their faithful at Christmastime to hold on to hope.
And in Iraq, Christmas was celebrated as a national holiday for the first time; the Iraqi parliament
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Deacon Larry Oney, a noted Catholic speaker and author, writes that when it comes to the crises we as Catholics have faced in 2020, “it is important, as people of faith, that we do not