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The Roman Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem. / Credit: Jacob Stein/Crux StationalisRome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 07:53 am (CNA).While many people choose to give up social media for Lent, one Catholic man is uploading new videos online every day to share the stories of the early Christian martyrs and Rome s most ancient churches.Jacob Stein is visiting a church in Rome each day of Lent this year, retracing the pilgrimage routes Catholics have walked for centuries as part of the Roman station church liturgical tradition.Stein is sharing his experience on Crux Stationalis, a "social media apostolate" that seeks to bring the beauty and history of Rome s Lenten station church tradition to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and his blog RomanStationChurch.com.The American, who lives in Rome and started the Crux Stationlis YouTube and Instagram channels in Lent 2021, said he wanted "people to see Rome with its beauty and to understand the depths of Rome s devotion to the marty ....
Breaking News / CNAWashington D.C., Mar 27, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Nashville police fatally shot a school shooter on Monday after the suspect killed three students and three adult staff members at Covenant School, a private Christian school for students in preschool through sixth grade. According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), the shooter was a 28-year-old woman. The police department has not yet released more information about the shooter or a possible motive. "Two MNPD officers who entered the building and went to the sounds of gunfire engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her," MNPD announced in a tweet.Police received calls about the shooter Monday shortly after 10 a.m. The six patients were taken to Monroe Carell Jr. Children s Hospital and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead on arrival, according to the Associated Press. Students who survived the attack were bused to Woodmont ....
Pope Francis gives an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica March 27, 2020. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday will bless a satellite that will launch his words into space on June 10.The "Spes Satelles," Latin for "Satellites of Hope," will be launched on a rocket taking off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.According to the Vatican, the miniaturized satellite will hold a copy of a book documenting the pope s urbi et orbi blessing of March 27, 2020, when, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, he blessed the world from St. Peter s Square with the words "Lord, may you bless the world, give health to our bodies, and comfort our hearts.""You ask us not to be afraid," the pope prayed. "Yet our faith is weak and we are fearful. But you, Lord, will not leave us at the mercy of the storm."Pope Francis speaks in an empty St. Peter s S ....
Bishop Erik Varden O.C.S.O, of the Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, Norway, at the vespers at Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNARome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).Bishops from the five Nordic countries have released a letter on the traditional Christian teaching on sexuality, upholding the "embodied integrity of personhood" against modern transgender ideologies."Now, notions of what it is to be a human, and so a sexual being, are in flux. What is taken for granted today may be rejected tomorrow. Anyone who stakes much on passing theories risks being terribly hurt. We need deep roots," the eight members of the Nordic bishops conference say in the letter, which was released Saturday."Let us, then, try to appropriate the fundamental principles of Christian anthropology while reaching out in friendship, with respect, to those who feel estranged by them," they continue. "We owe it to the Lord, to ourselves, ....
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. / Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:01 am (CNA).On the fifth Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis challenged the faithful to do as they did when they were little children learning how to walk: letting God take them by the hand. That way, the pope assured, even when they fall or feel discouraged, they won t be alone. On the contrary, "it is precisely in these moments that He comes closer than ever to restore us to life," the pope said in his Angelus address March 26.Speaking from the window of the Vatican s Apostolic Palace, the pope pointed to the Gospel of the day, which narrates the resurrection of Lazarus, a dear friend of Jesus. In what is his last known miracle before Easter, Jesus arrives when all hope is lost, but when he asks for the tomb to be open, prays to the Father, and shouts to Lazarus "Come out!" his friend comes back to life. As to Lazarus, J ....