Yesterday afternoon, Pope Francis took to the streets of Italy to pray in two Rome churches about the coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic has infected people spanning 110 different countries and is threatening disarray on the world’s economy. Italy has been one of the countries hit the hardest, with an infection rate of over 24,500 and…

Lent is the six week period leading up to Easter and is a particularly important time for many Christians around the world, particularly those within the Catholic tradition. Christians around the world observe Lent in different ways, with many choosing to give up things in order to refocus their faith. This year, Pope Francis made…

The greatest way the devil works is through temptation to commit evil, Father Francois Demine said in a recent interview with Catholic News Agency. “The most common manifestation of the demonic is temptation, which is much more significant than possession,” Father Dermine said. “We must not undervalue the significance of temptation. It’s not as spectacular…

Pope Francis’ longtime atheist friend and interviewer, Eugenio Scalfari says that the Pope told him that once Jesus Christ became incarnate, he was a “man of exceptional virtues” but “not at all God” according to an October edition of La República, a Peruvian newspaper. This would go against the teaching of not only the Catholic…

In France, there has been a startling trend over the last few months. Their churches are being vandalized. With the recent desecration of a dozen Catholic churches in France in just one week, investigators will not rule out the possibility of arson for the most recent fire at Notre Dame. Notre Dame is undoubtedly the…

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