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Readings for Sunday II of Easter (A)
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (542+ words) omnesmag. com On Easter Day, we read in the Gospel how Peter and John ran to the empty tomb. John went in, saw and believed. Today's Gospel brings us to another moment of faith: the episode of Thomas. Thomas insists…...
Baptisms confirm the religious revival of young people
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (242+ words) France, the United Kingdom and the United States lead the surprising "ranking" of the number of converts to Catholicism. Holy Week 2026 has left an increasingly common image in much of the Western world: temples full of adults and young people…...
Algeria's complicated religious situation
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (707+ words) Algeria, the African country where Pope Leo will arrive on April 13, has a complicated religious situation that seriously harms the nation's Christians. Flag of Algeria (Wikimedia Commons) Algeria officially enshrines Islam as a state religion, but non-Muslim communities operate in…...
Why is the Octave of Easter a solemnity. The Pope answers
1+ week, 1+ day ago (790+ words) Christ is risen! Happy Easter!". Proclaiming Christ's Easter means giving new voice to hope, not to violence, the Pope said at the Regina caeli on Easter Monday, contrasting the living Christ with the fake news about the body of Jesus....
Women's suffering and authority mark the Stations of the Cross
1+ week, 4+ day ago (818+ words) On Good Friday, Pope Leo XIV presided over the Way of the Cross written by Fr. Francesco Patton, ofm, former Custos of the Holy Land, at the Roman Colosseum. The ability and example of women to suffer, and the response…...
Pope talks with Herzog and Zelensky this Good Friday
1+ week, 4+ day ago (465+ words) Hours before the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord and the Way of the Cross in the Colosseum, Pope Leo had a telephone conversation this Good Friday with the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, on the day of the Pontifical…...
Women at the foot of the cross
1+ week, 4+ day ago (458+ words) The women who remained at the foot of the Cross are a model for all believers and fundamental pillars of the proclamation of the Resurrection. Sometimes you discover your purpose when you start looking where no one else was looking....
Leo XIV: pray for priests in crisis
1+ week, 6+ day ago (338+ words) The video with Leo XIV's prayer intention for the month of April, disseminated through the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, invites us to pray for all priests, especially for those who are going through moments of crisis, and to accompany them…...
Where are the laity?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1819+ words) In April 1966, an article by journalist and sociologist Joseph Folliet on the laity was published in Palabra magazine (no. 270). In it he gives a small phenomenology of the laity. We publish the interview on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of…...
Christians in the encounter between faith and cultures
1+ week, 6+ day ago (806+ words) Leo XIV, inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe, explains how the Church proposes an inculturation of faith that does not colonize cultures, but inhabits them with love in order to elevate their values and heal them from their own roots....