Early on November 20, 2014, Pope Francis traveled to the headquarters of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome and delivered the following address to the Second International Conference on Nutrition. Full text below: Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased and honoured to speak here today, at this Second International Conference on ...

Do you love movies? Do you read film reviews? Check out current film reviews on Reel Faith with David DiCerto and Steven Greydanus, to get a Catholic perspective on the latest Hollywood releases. Watch trailers and hear what their resident film buff, Fr. Robert Lauder has to say about the Great Films chosen by the Vatican.  First ...

On November 23, 2014, the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Francis will canonize six blesseds and inscribe them in the roll call of Saints. These blesseds consist of two Indians and four Italians, including one layman and one bishop. The blesseds who are to be canonized on Sunday are: Kuriakose Elias Chavara: A priest and the ...

Below you find the full text of Archbishop Blase Cupich’s homily during the Installation Mass as Archbishop of Chicago: Bienvenido, Witam, Mabuhay, Dobro dosli, Welcome I am delighted and honoured to be your archbishop. So many of you in this cathedral today have come – from near and so very far – friends and family, ...

Below you will find Archbishop Blase Cupich’s homily in Holy Name Cathedral at Monday evening’s prayer service on the vigil of his installation as the Ninth Archbishop of Chicago: The Windy City’s ablaze with gratitude & hope Chicago welcomes Archbishop Blase Cupich at Prayer Vigil It is only polite to begin with an expression of ...

Today on Perspectives, Pope Francis announces he is coming to the United States, tells a gathering that marriage and the family are in crisis, his weekly Angelus, condemns abortion and other medical procedures that violate human dignity and a look ahead to his trips to Strasbourg and Turkey. ...

Below you will find the English language translation of the Holy Father’s address in Italian, delivered this morning at the Colloquium on the complementarity of Man and Woman at the Vatican. Dear sisters and brothers, I warmly greet you. I thank Cardinal Muller for his words with which he introduced our meeting. I would like ...

Can you even baptise an extraterrestrial? This week we ask this question and many others to Vatican Astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ. We also learn about the upcoming Family Conference in Ottawa hosted by Dominican University College; Gillian Kantor tells us what she learned from her kids and Sal Solo tells us who are the ...

Last week we looked at what Vocation is and what it means to “be called.” Everyone is called to one of four vocations and so at some point in our life, if we want to respond to God’s call, we have to think about where God wants to take us. Figuring this out may not ...

In Toronto, different religious groups are working together by opening their place of worship on winter nights to keep the city’s homeless out of the cold. In Saskatoon, Bishop Don Bolen is calling on Catholics to get better informed about the cases of missing aboriginal women in the province and the country, and pray for ...