Pilgrimage & Holy Sites

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1083+ words) Study Group 7 says bishops’ visits to Rome should be instruments of missionary conversion, communal discernment, and greater co-responsibility in the Church. VATICAN CITY — For centuries, “ad limina apostolorum” visits — the periodic pilgrimage of diocesan bishops to the tombs of the…...

8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1756+ words) Gov Hyacinth Alia of Benue State Let me state my position plainly. I do not defend everything Fr. Alia does. I defend the Catholic principle that an erring priest must be corrected without being reduced to the sum of his…...

10+ hour, 10+ min ago   (622+ words) by INFOVATICANA | September 14, 2026 The feast has its roots in fourth-century Jerusalem and was later linked both to the veneration of Christ’s Cross and to the recovery of the relic after the Persians seized it in the seventh century. Crucifixion was…...

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11+ hour, 45+ min ago   (475+ words) By Bill Papastergiadis OAM, President, Greek Community of Melbourne Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand, Andrew Mesourouni, my son Lee and I recently had the privilege of meeting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople. Over lunch and during a private meeting that…...

10+ hour, 23+ min ago   (324+ words) Casey Chalk on Monday, September 14, 2026 The Church offers a different way of understanding correction, a truly Christian ethic based on a proper anthropology, an understanding of human weakness, of repentance, forgiveness, and redemption that enables us to overcome errors. It…...

10+ hour, 50+ min ago   (234+ words) His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia received a delegation of academics and educators participating in the 12th International Summer University at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady in Redfern, Sydney, on Thursday, September 10. The International Summer University, titled “Greek…...

10+ hour, 43+ min ago   (565+ words) Kathmandu. A long queue of female devotees has been observed in the Pashupatinath area since early morning on the occasion of this year's Haritalika. The Pashupati Area Development Trust has informed that all four gates of Pashupatinath have been opened…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago   (441+ words) By Matters India Reporter QUEZON CITY, September 14, 2026: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urged Catholic digital missionaries from across Asia to allow Jesus Christ to be the strongest influence in their lives so their online presence and work can become authentic witnesses…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (659+ words) During his Angelus address yesterday, to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the power of forgiving others as Christ has forgiven us, in order to counter hatred, division and violence, and promote peace and love....