Read more about the article Kids help pope celebrate 86th birthday with cake, circus performers
Pope Francis reacts as an artist performs during an audience with children and volunteers of the Vatican's St. Martha Dispensary, a maternal and pediatric clinic, at the Vatican Dec. 18, 2022. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

Kids help pope celebrate 86th birthday with cake, circus performers

‘A day of joy that helps us prepare for Christmas’

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Read more about the article Global church is seeing how pope’s vision of synodality involves everyone
Pope Francis leads a meeting with representatives of bishops' conferences from around the world at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2021. The meeting came as the Vatican launched the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Global church is seeing how pope’s vision of synodality involves everyone

Global Church is seeing how pope’s vision of synodality involves everyone

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Read more about the article Church must take seriously the problems, needs of workers, pope says
Antonio Di Matteo, general president of Italy's Movement of Christian Workers, holds a flag as he meets Pope Francis during an audience with members of the organization in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 9, 2022. The problems and needs of workers must be a part of the church's work and concern, the pope said. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Church must take seriously the problems, needs of workers, pope says

'I urge you to keep your minds and hearts open to workers'

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Read more about the article Pope: Antisemitism shows need for Christian-Jewish understanding
Pope Francis accepts a book during an audience with members of Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne de France, a Jewish-Christian dialogue organization founded in France in 1948, at the Vatican Dec. 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: Antisemitism shows need for Christian-Jewish understanding

‘The task is not finished’

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Read more about the article Pope pays tribute to predecessor, honors Ratzinger Prize winners
Jesuit Father Michel Fédou, professor of dogmatic theology and patristics at the Centre Sèvres of Paris, and Joseph H. H. Weiler, a professor of law at New York University School of Law, stand on either side of Pope Francis after receiving the Ratzinger Prize in theology from him Dec. 1, 2022, at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope pays tribute to predecessor, honors Ratzinger Prize winners

‘All of us sense his spiritual presence, his accompaniment in prayer for the whole Church and his constant contemplative gaze’

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Read more about the article Heisman winner is much loved, respected alum of D.C.-area Catholic schools
Caleb Williams, then a 2018 sophomore quarterback on the football team at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, poses for a photo near the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool. That fall, Williams threw a last second 53-yard Hail Mary pass for a touchdown giving the Eagles a 46-43 championship win over DeMatha Catholic High School. Williams, now a star quarterback for the University of Southern California, won the 2022 Heisman Trophy Dec. 10. (CNS photo/ courtesy Gonzaga College High School via Catholic Standard)

Heisman winner is much loved, respected alum of D.C.-area Catholic schools

‘He was very well-mannered and kind to his peers.’

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Read more about the article Physical vulnerability can be a resource for society, the church, pope says
Pope Francis blesses a woman during an audience with members of the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired at the Vatican Dec. 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Physical vulnerability can be a resource for society, the church, pope says

Physical vulnerability can be a resource for society, the church, pope says

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Read more about the article Pope praises firefighters’ service, dedication
Pope Francis greets a boy during an audience with hundreds of Italian firefighters and their family members at the Vatican Dec. 10, 2022. The pope praised them as true good Samaritans, always ready to save others from calamity. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope praises firefighters’ service, dedication

‘Lord, let them not have work’

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Read more about the article Vocations in Progress Dinner celebrates Church’s hope for the future [Photo Gallery]
The Serra Clubs of Nashville and Williamson County hosted their annual Vocations in Progress dinner for the seminarians of the Diocese of Nashville and the postulants of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia Congregation Tuesday, Dec. 20, at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville. The evening included Mass celebrated by Bishop J. Mark Spalding. Several seminarians as well as 18 new postulants with the Dominican sisters were in attendance, as was Greg Schweitz, president of Serra International, and his wife, Mary Lynn. Seminarian Juan Hernandez smiles at his 5-year-old niece Zoe Hernandez.

Vocations in Progress Dinner celebrates Church’s hope for the future [Photo Gallery]

‘God has a dream for all of us’

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