Page 17 - Obymac News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Pope Francis presides over Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on May 28, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, May 28, 2023 / 05:15 am (CNA).On the Solemnity of Pentecost, Pope Francis urged Catholics to invoke the Holy Spirit daily to bring harmony to a divided world, a polarized Church, and to broken hearts.Speaking in St. Peter's Basilica, the pope explained that the role of the Holy Spirit, both at the beginning of the creation of the world and at all times, is to make "created realities pass from disorder to order" and "from confusion to harmony.""In our wo...

Pope Francis delivers the Regina Caeli address from the window of the Apostolic Palace on May 28, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, May 28, 2023 / 07:15 am (CNA).From the Philippines to Portugal, Marian shrines around the world will participate in a special day of prayer this Wednesday for the work of the Synod on Synodality. In his Regina Caeli address, Pope Francis announced that the day of prayer for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place on May 31, the last day of the month dedicated to Mary. "Let us ask the Virgin Mary to accompany this importan...

Null / ShutterstockWashington D.C., May 26, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).A freelance journalist who has reported on a surge of violent attacks by radicalized Muslims in Nigeria for CNA recently found himself caught in the middle of a firefight between government soldiers and armed militiamen."With hundreds of bullets flying over my head, and the whizzing gunfire whipping past my ears, lying flat on the ground and crawling on we were swarmed by more than 200 armed terrorists who were dressed in black," Masara Kim, an independent reporter based in Jos, recounted in text messages to CNA.The ex...

A young man touches a religious statue to the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 25, 2023, at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles monastery in Gower, Missouri. / Used with permission.CNA Newsroom, May 26, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).Expert morticians are scratching their heads at the recently exhumed body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, a Benedictine nun who died in 2019 and now appears to be in an unexpected state of preservation.The reactions come a week after the abbess and sisters of the community that she founded, the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles...

A statue of St. Junipero Serra, which was defaced and torn down by protesters Oct. 12, 2020, at Mission San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafael, California. Courtesy photo.Denver, Colo., May 26, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said Thursday that prosecutors' decision to reduce the charge against activists who destroyed a parish's statue of a saint from felony to misdemeanor sends the signal that attacks against the Catholic Church can continue with impunity."It is clear to me that this course of action would not have been taken with anyone else. In fact, i...