Priest

“We give thanks for a priest whose life was a gift poured out in service” and who touched countless lives “by his compassion, leadership and unwavering faith.”

This is the official English translation of the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily for Mass on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday.

Priests are called to leave the Church’s doors open to a “suffering humanity” in need and not “be an obstacle to those who wish to enter,” Pope Leo XIV said.

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Belarus’s foremost Catholic dissident has urged Church leaders not to ignore the plight of his country’s political prisoners amid a continuing crackdown on religious freedoms.

As pope, John Paul II held a tradition of writing a Holy Thursday letter to priests his entire pontificate.

“I lived for half a century in a shocking denial of this trauma. Today, I have extricated myself from it, but the wound is still raw.”

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Bishop Zaidan said the priest was injured in a second strike that took place “right away” after the first, and then “died in the hospital.”

“I firmly believe in the power of Jesus’s presence — his flesh, his blood, his soul — in the Eucharist. Marcos desperately needed it” at that moment.