by Jennie Murphy | Jun 21, 2023 | Blog Articles
If the pope asks to pray for the abolition of torture, it is because it is still going on in the world today. The 1984 UN Convention Against Torture has been ratified by 173 states to date, but there is still a long way to go, even in the countries that have signed...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 9, 2023 | Blog Articles
Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, National Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (USA), reflects on the beauty of the Morning Offering, summarizing it as, “Uniting my heart, to his Heart, for all...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 7, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
We pray that the international community may commit in a concrete way to ensuring the abolition of torture and guarantee support to victims and their families. Pope Francis invites us this month to focus our attention on the abolition of torture, imploring God to...
by Jennie Murphy | May 31, 2023 | Blog Articles
Chapter five of St. Matthew’s Gospel is known as the “Sermon on the Mount.” Jesus begins his ministry in Galilee by choosing a group of friends to accompany him on his mission. He goes up a mountain with them and tells them about the beatitudes, which Pope Francis...
by Philip Kosloski | May 24, 2023 | Blog Articles
On the very last day of May, the Church celebrates the feast of the Visitation. This feast remembers the encounter of the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth.“During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she...
