Jacqueline Burkepile is the editor for the English edition of ChurchPOP. She is a journalist, a former director of campus ministry, and a wife and mother.
Please pray for Sri Lanka. The world mourns as news circulates about multiple simultaneous suicide bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday morning. St. Anthony’s Shrine and St. Sebastian Church were among two Catholic Churches bombed, as well as a Christian evangelical church and three hotels. Two additional bombings...
The Divine Mercy Novena begins on Good Friday. Jesus instructed St. Faustina to pray the Divine Mercy Novena and write it down so others may pray it. The following Novena is from Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska. Here’s Jesus’ instructions, as given to St....
Praise God for the gift of technology! Reports circulating the internet said a robot named “Colossus” greatly assisted in Notre Dame’s fire rescue efforts. The 1100-pound robot, created by French company Shark Robotics, used a water cannon to shoot almost 700 gallons through the cathedral’s most dangerous fire...
A man was arrested yesterday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City for apparently attempting to start a fire. He had attempted to take several containers of gasoline and lighter fluid into the century-old church with a lighter, but was apprehended by security and turned over to police,...
Wow, this is a really amazing video! An incredible video posted on Twitter reveals the Cathedral’s interior fire damage. However, the footage seemingly shows that the inside is still very stable and untouched. There is a lot of ash and wood, as well as an open roof. However, the...
What do you make of this? News circulated this morning about a young woman allegedly seeing Jesus’ silhouette in the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire’s flames. Obviously this is all speculation and there is not one solid answer, but what do you think? Here’s the photos below: This Facebook...
