For the poor in Lebanon whose lives are clouded in misery, even a fresh coat of paint can brighten bleak living conditions. That's what Caritas Lebanon youth volunteers are doing for 40 needy families all over ...
Although security issues in the Middle East have declined in recent years, the challenges that remain are "getting more complex, as we have entered a tunnel whose darkness has not yet subsided," Syriac Catholic Patriarch ...
Like a light piercing through the darkness of despair in beleaguered Lebanon, two martyred Lebanese Capuchin priests were beatified on the eve of Pentecost. The beatification comes as Lebanon is drowning in a catastrophic economic meltdown ...
The war in Syria is mostly over, and not a house was unaffected, said a nun based there. But now, the economy is so bad that people look back on the war and say, "at ...
While the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis' hope to travel to Kazakhstan this year, it did not confirm a news story that Pope Francis could meet Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in Jerusalem in June. Pope ...
Two weeks after meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican and inviting him again to visit Lebanon, President Michel Aoun tweeted that the visit could take place as early as June. The "Lebanese Presidency" Twitter account said, ...
Pope Francis told Lebanon's president the country has a special place in his prayers, and he reiterated his intention to visit. During his March 21 meeting at the Vatican with President Michel Aoun, a Maronite Catholic, ...
Catholic leaders from Europe, the United States and Canada called on their governments to support Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai's appeal for an international conference to protect Lebanon. In a joint statement issued March 1, the leaders ...
The Vatican's foreign minister traveled to Lebanon with messages for its politicians and for ordinary people. Lebanon's leaders must "make the decisive decision to work for peace and not for their own interests," said Archbishop Paul ...
For 1,600 Maronite Catholic children in crisis-stricken Lebanon, Advent has awakened a ray of hope. They were guests at a Christmas Village, organized especially for them by their archdiocese, with help from Catholics in other countries. "The ...
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Once Mass is over, does your church become a social free-for-all? Ava Lalor addresses this issue — both the limitation of church buildings & why we need to instill reverence in our sacred spaces
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A few columns back, Ava Lalor wrote about how we can pray the Mass well, offering some ideas for how to prep...
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