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Pray for Gina, and the Florida feast
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1438+ words) Top of the morning to you, everybody: It’s the feast of St. Patrick, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. I’ll get to that in a minute. But first, I’d like to ask for your prayers. After a battle with…...
Meet the 21st-century Brazilians on the path to sainthood
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (579+ words) Brazil has more Catholics than any other country in the world. So it’s not surprising that it’s producing a striking number of potential 21st-century saints. Among the figures whose causes are progressing is Padre Léo, who established a network of…...
Who could be Leo’s pick for Secretary of State, whenever it comes?
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1611+ words) One of the remaining great unknowns of the Leonine pontificate is when the pope could choose to replace the heads of Vatican departments remaining from the Francis papacy. At the largest and most influential of these, the Secretariat of State,…...
‘Love is the great key’: Meet Servants of God Tomás and Paquita Alvira
4+ week, 2+ day ago (1797+ words) Lisieux. The Pillar spoke with Fr. José Carlos Martín de la Hoz, postulator of the cause, about the life of Tomás...
Corpus Christi, ‘come una madre’, and real beer
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1716+ words) And a very happy feast of Corpus Christi, whether you celebrated yesterday or will on Sunday. For those who may not realize, the feast as strictly instituted falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Though its transfer to the next…...
Meet Pedro Ballester: An Englishman with a cause
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1881+ words) The Diocese of Salford in England announced this month the opening of the canonization cause for Pedro Ballester Arenas, who died of cancer in 2018 at 21 years of age. Ballester was born in Manchester to a Spanish family and asked for…...
‘No one really knows’ whereabouts of Nicaragua’s Bishop Mata
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (963+ words) Nicaraguan human rights activists have raised alarm over the welfare and whereabouts of Bishop Abelardo Mata. The bishop was briefly detained by the Nicaraguan regime on June 29 and while authorities claim he was returned home later that day, no one…...
Venezuelan bishops: Country must be rooted in human dignity, popular sovereignty
7+ mon, 6+ hour ago (746+ words) The Venezuelan bishops have issued a plea for human dignity and popular sovereignty as the foundation for the country moving forward. In their first substantive group statement since the United States captured former dictator Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, the bishops…...
Peña Parra appointed Italian nuncio
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1417+ words) In the most senior Vatican curial appointment of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Archbishop Paolo Rudelli, apostolic nuncio to Colombia, to replace Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra as papal chief of staff. The pope also appointed Peña Parra,…...
Is Peña Parra’s new job an exile, or probation?
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1715+ words) Pope Leo XIV on Monday ordered the biggest curial personnel change of his first year in office, transferring the sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, to serve as apostolic nuncio to Italy and San Marino. Peña…...