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LA’s ‘peacemaker’ Bishop David O’Connell dead at 69 - Angelus
Feb 18, 2023 · Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in LA’s inner city, has died.
A hushed history of Catholic confessions - Angelus
May 15, 2019 · The Church has observed the “seal of the confessional” — the privacy and secrecy between confessor and penitent — since the time of the Fathers. The earliest Christian documents suggest that confession was a public event, at least for public sins. When sinners caused scandal, the damage was social, and so the Church prescribed a social remedy.
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The history of the Assumption and why it's a Holy Day of
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Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint - Angelus
May 23, 2024 · Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first "millennial" to become a saint.. In a meeting May 23 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for Saints' Causes, the pope signed decrees advancing the sainthood causes of Blessed Acutis, as well as one ...
Vatican accuses Archbishop Viganò of schism, begins trial - Angelus
Jun 20, 2024 · The Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has begun an extrajudicial penal trial to determine if Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former nuncio to the United States, is guilty of schism, the archbishop said on social media.. In a June 20 post on X, the archbishop published a letter he said he received from the dicastery over email informing him of the trial.
Saint of the day: Guardian Angels
October 2 is the feast day of Guardian Angels. The concept of guardian angels is expressed in the Old and New Testaments, and Jesus makes their existence explicitly clear in the Gospel of Matthew, when he says, “See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven” (18-10).
Inside the Catholic operation to combat LA’s swelling ... - Angelus
May 13, 2021 · Chris Seminatore and Mike Psomas veered down Venice Beach boardwalk, toting a wagon stocked with 120 homemade ham-and-cheese sandwiches, bottled water and Oreos and Nutter Butter Bites.
A beautiful image of our Blessed Mother Mary for your home
Mary is our Mother! What a beautiful reality that is! Jesus gives us his own Mother to be our Mother. Her heart is full of love for us and full of tender concern for everything that is going on in our lives. She prays for us and she wants to help us …