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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. 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 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 explains why he only talks about it decades later.Markus Vögele: On May 13, 1981, you were in St....
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 Christ, that he was ready to witness and to give his life for Christ," Father Harris Pakkam told ...
Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's 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 an inheritance, at times we think of goods, and not of the goodness that is done in old age, and tha...