It should be of no surprise that the world’s largest collection of relics is at the Vatican. But it might come as a bit of a shock that the world’s second largest collection of relics open to the public is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Not Florence, Paris, or London....
Did you know Vatican City has its own “national anthem”? Known as “Inno e Marcia Pontificale” as well as the “Papal Anthem,” it is played to mark the presence of the Pope or one of his representatives and on special occasions. Though it functions as a national anthem for the...
So the culture wants to depart from the truth of marriage. This is not new. The nature of marriage has been a point of controversy for thousands of years. In fact, some of the Church’s greatest, most venerated saints gave their lives defending marriage. Would you do the same?...
San Francesco, CA. San Antonio, TX. St. Paul, MN. These major American cities all have one thing in common: they’re named after some of the greatest Catholic saints. It might seem strange that there are so many cities around the U.S. named after Catholic saints given American culture’...
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Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment titled Laudato Si in May 2015. It’s the first papal encyclical to be dedicated to care for the environment and so represents an important development of the Church’s teachings on the matter. Its title, Laudato Si, is the first two...
