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Carl Anderson, former Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, March 17, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Los Angeles, Calif., May 16, 2022 / 13:25 pm (CNA). In his address to the gradua...

An arrow points to David DePerro in St. Peters Square on May 13, 1981. / Magda Gorman/Used by permission.Vatican City, May 13, 2022 / 03:47 am (CNA).On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II and critically injured him. The pictures of the pontiff in a blood-soaked cassock in a jeep went around the world. David DePerro, who was nine years old at the time, saw the assassination attempt at close range. In an interview, the now 50-year-old speaks about how he experienced the attack and...

An arrow points to David DePerro in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. / Magda Gorman/Used by permission. Vatican City, May 13, 2022 / 03:47 am (CNA). On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca shot Pope John Paul II and critically injured him. The pict...

A statue of Devasahayam Pillai at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Kottar, India. / Kumbalam via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).Rome Newsroom, May 12, 2022 / 07:17 am (CNA).When Neelakanta Pillai was baptized a Catholic in 1745, he knowingly left behind the comfort of his wealthy, high-caste Hindu family for almost certain persecution and death."Despite the threats to his life, despite the persecution, despite dangers for his own existence, he was ready to proclaim to everyone that he truly loved Ch...

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peters Square on May 11, 2022. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, May 11, 2022 / 04:50 am (CNA).Pope Francis offered advice on Wednesday about how to live in retirement fruitfully by leaving "a legacy of good, rather than just goods."Speaking during his general audience on May 11, the pope said that retirement can be a "time to leave a good legacy of wisdom, tenderness, and gifts for the family and the community.""When we think of a...

The canonization of John Henry Newman in St. Peter’s Square, Oct. 13, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, May 10, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis will preside over the first canonizations in more than two years this weekend. Ten people...

Pope Francis visits the San Raffaele Borona assisted living home in Rieti, Italy, Oct. 4, 2016. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, May 10, 2022 / 03:35 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited grandparents and the elderly on Tuesday to join a "spiritual and non-violent revolution."In his message for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, issued on May 10, the pope urged seniors not to despair at their frailty but to embrace "a new mission" of caring for others in a world torn...

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peters Square on May 4, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Vatican City, May 9, 2022 / 10:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis has underlined that God "does not disown any of his children" in a brief message marking the launch of a new website for LGBT Catholics.The pope made the comment in a handwritten letter dated May 8 to Father James Martin, S.J., the editor at large of America Media, the company supporting the new website, outreach.faith, launched on May ...

Pope Francis’ general audience in St. Peter’s Square, May 4, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, May 6, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis said on Friday that the “barbarity of war” should inspire a new push for Christian unity.The pope m...

Sister Marie Lucindis Stock. / Shutterstock/courtesy photo.Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA).Its likely that many of the priests, cardinals, and bishops working inside the Vatican knew her face, although no one knew the real story of the Pallottine Missionary sister who had made St. Peters Square her home.They would have walked by the unknown woman often, passing by her perch on the base of a Vatican column, her rosy, wind-chapped cheeks peeking out from her puffy blue coat and pilling ...