"To dry the tears from the faces of those who are suffering, it is necessary to join our tears with theirs." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel

"This is the moment of truth. Will we bend down to touch and heal the wounds of others? Will we bend down and help another person get up? This is today's challenge. We should not be afraid to face it." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

Apostolic Vicar: Even where humanity has lost its reason, we are to testify love - Vatican News The Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, Bishop Paolo Martinelli, OFM Cap., says that even where humanity may seem to have lost its reason and where ...

"Dear brothers and sisters, our task is to testify that love conquers." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Pope Leo XIV meets a moment of moral hunger - The Boston Globe Rising attendance and new converts reflect a search for meaning in a culture unsettled by politics and disconnection.

"Faced with the unbending immorality of our current political leaders, people are open to a voice that forces us to think about where the line between right and wrong should be drawn." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/06/o...

"By washing our bodies, Jesus purifies our souls. In him, God has given us an example — not of how to dominate, but of how to liberate; not of how to destroy life, but of how to give it." #PopeLeoXIV #HolyWeek #LiveTheGospel

In this week's message, Father Jim is inspired by #SaintOscarRomero to ask "hard questions" for #HolyWeek that call us to prayer, discernment, and a penetrating examination of conscience. Now more than ever, let's pray and walk together! #LiveTheGospel ccgronline.com

"The people are my prophet." #SaintOscarRomero #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther #PrayForAmerica

"Guard yourself, abstain from every evil, and persevere in goodness until the end." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

The story of Annella Zervas: Examples of holiness needed close to home - Vatican News A 26-year-old woman from the state of Minnesota joins another 100 U.S. born men and women on the path to canonization as a century after her death, ...

“All of us have our part to play in living the Gospel of Suffering.” #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

"God is open to all people. God calls all people. God moves everyone to seek him and discover him." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel

"Christ invites us not to fear persecution. Believe me, brothers and sisters, anyone committed to the poor must risk the same fate as the poor." #OscarRomero #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor

"No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #BeHumble

"Be converted! Be reconciled! Love one another!" #OscarRomero #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

"We must be very alert to the evil subtlety of Satan. His one desire is to keep us from having a heart and mind inclined to our Lord and God." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch

Pope to Focolare: Be a counterweight to violence and hatred - Vatican News Pope Leo meets the Focolare Movement and encourages them to promote unity and peace within their organization and throughout the world, especially at ...

“We are in great need of the spirit of unity today, because the poison of division and conflict tends to corrupt hearts and social relationships and must be countered by the Gospel witness of unity, dialogue, forgiveness, and peace." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

St. Francis teaches us that to obey Christ is sometimes to disobey the church Ecclesiastical disobedience is not to be taken lightly nor used as justification for selfish interest. But as Francis of Assisi's life bears witness, there may be times when one has to choose the Gosp...

"Saint Francis and his followers strove to be loyal and obedient to legitimate church authorities and religious superiors, but not when there was a tension or outright conflict with what the Gospel of Jesus Christ commands." #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/st-f...

March 15, 2026: Fourth Sunday of Lent Scripture for Life: Jesus' healing action for the blind man — which happened on a Sabbath — spurred deeper questions: How and when does God act in our world? What does God want from us?

"Many of us feel surrounded by darkness: wars, leaders who disseminate lies, proud hate groups, the maltreatment of vulnerable & innocent people, and much more...[But when] we seek God's light, we can master new, loving and joy-filled ways of seeing." #LiveTheGospel www.ncronline.org/spirituality...

"God desires us to follow the examples of the saints by absorbing the vital sap of their virtues and turning it into our own life-blood, adapting it to our own individual capacities and particular circumstances." #SaintJohnXXIII #LiveTheGospel

Display of St. Francis of Assisi's bones confirms enduring appeal of relics for Christians The bones of St. Francis of Assisi went on public display for the first time Sunday, capping an 800-year saga over his bodily remains and confirming the enduring appeal to Christians of venerating a s...

"In this historic moment, we need him." #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch #SaintFrancisOfAssisi www.ncronline.org/news/display...

Feb. 22, 2026: First Sunday of Lent Scripture for Life: Lent offers us the opportunity to spend time asking ourselves who we are at our core and who God wants to help us become. Growing in our identity as daughters and sons of God will ...

"Under the guidance of the Spirit, we can keep learning how to expose and expel the idols, the demons who promote domination, self-centeredness and the relentless quest for power, fame, beauty, luxury and the like. If we are children of God…" #LiveTheGospel www.ncronline.org/spirituality...

In our new podcast, Brother Patrick reflects on the "broad virtue" of attentiveness and the Lord's call to see, to care, and to act. #Attentiveness #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #AssisiProjectPodcast assisiproject.com

Feb. 15, 2026: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture for Life: Jesus taught his disciples to live like he did because loving and cherishing each person is the only way to happiness and to grow our humanity and thus in union with our Trinitaria...

"What the despisers don't realize is that choosing to view another as inconsequential desecrates them as much as their victim." #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/spirituality...

"The Gospel offers us this valuable teaching: minimal righteousness is not enough; great love is needed (2-16-26)." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

"It is more pleasing to God that we give away the New Testament that we use for prayer rather than keep it. After all, it is this book that teaches us to help the poor." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

"The Church without frontiers, Mother to all peoples, spreads throughout the world a culture of acceptance and solidarity in which no one is seen as useless, out of place, or disposable (2015)." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch

"The proclamation of the Word of God becomes ineffective if it loses contact with reality, human hopes, human suffering, and if it uses incomprehensible, uncommunicative, or anachronistic language (2-4-26)." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch

Rev. William Barber takes up Mike Johnson's challenge to debate immigration theology (RNS) — Barber made the challenge during a Thursday (Feb. 5) interview for 'Complexified,' a Religion News Service podcast created in partnership with Iliff Institute for Religion, Politics & Culture....

“Let’s talk about what Jesus said: Welcome the stranger. End of story. Case one. Drop the mic. And he didn’t say it to individuals — he said it to the nations.” #RevWilliamBarber #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2026/02/06/r...

Lord's Day Reflection: When mercy displaces darkness - Vatican News As the Church marks the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Abbot Marion Nguyen reflects on

"The impulse to accuse is a sign of immaturity, not insight." #LiveTheGospel #BeHumble www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

"The only crime with which I am charged is that I teach the religion of the true God and do not worship idols. It is indeed glorious to suffer death for such a crime." #SaintJohndeBritto #Martyr #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch

"Jesus explained with great simplicity what it means to be holy when he gave us the Beatitudes...So if anyone asks: 'What must one do to be a good Christian?', the answer is clear. We must do, each in our own way, what Jesus told us to do in the Sermon on the Mount." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel