Mexican parish to remember victims of violence with 130,000 candles

Mexican parish to remember victims of violence with 130,000 candles

A Mexican parish will remember the victims of violence in the country with 130,000 candles to be lit the night of July 30, as part of the Day of Prayer for Peace called by the Mexican Bi-shops’ Conference. In a video message, Father Alberto Medel, pastor of Our Father...
Six years after grisly murder, France remembers Father Jacques Hamel

Six years after grisly murder, France remembers Father Jacques Hamel

Six years after Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by knife-wielding terrorists while celebrating Mass at his parish church in northern France, locals gathered to commemorate his life and to pray. “We enter into prayer where Jacques fell, victim of the madness of men,”...
“I am sorry”: Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology

“I am sorry”: Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology

The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Muskwa, or Bear Park, Powwow Grounds. “It’s just very powerful,” Ward told The Catholic Register, Toronto-based...