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Benedictine nuns maintain perpetual adoration in Montmartre Initiated on August 1, 1885, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre, France, has never ceased. “Even during the bombing of 1944, Eucharistic Adoration did not stop,” explained Sister Marie-Agathe of the Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart …
Editorial team - 31, July 2020

Church and World Events

On the occasion of the centennial of the canonical coronation of the Virgin of the Forsaken, twelve thousand people filled the Plaza de Toros in Valencia, Spain, in a historic celebration. The Great Diocesan Vigil was led by the Metropolitan Archbishop, Most Rev. Enrique Benavent Vidal, and included moments of …
Editorial team - 30, June 2023

Church and World Events

The two hundredth anniversary of the Church in Singapore began on December 13 with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal William Goh. Numerous commemorative events for the bicentenary will take place in 2021, including an exhibition of paintings and works by Christian artists, book presentations, the screening of religious films, a …
Editorial team - 31, January 2021

Church and World Events

The year 2020 has been marked by a sharp increase in anti-Catholic activity in the United States, involving increasingly frequent episodes of vandalism and desecration. At Holy Family Parish in Citrus Heights, California, for example, a statue of Our Lady was decapitated, and a sculpture representing the Ten Commandments, erected …
Editorial team - 31, October 2020

Church and World Events

When the tomb of St. Teresa of Avila was reopened on August 28, her body was found to be still incorrupt. The remains of the reforming Saint of Carmel, who died in 1582, are in the same condition as in the last openings of the silver coffin that houses them, …
Editorial team - 31, October 2024

Church and World Events

In the year marking one thousand years since the beginning of the construction of its abbey, France’s Mont Saint-Michel has been named one of the seven wonders of the world by the American magazine Condé Nast Traveler. Given the harmonious combination of stone and sea, the magazine states that “perhaps …
Editorial team - 28, February 2023

Church and World Events

Christmas celebrations have been the occasion for acts of vandalism against the Church. In the chapel of the Hospital of Barbastro, Spain, aggressors opened the tabernacle and scattered the Sacred Hosts on the floor. The diocese expressed its “sadness, consternation and condemnation” for the event, while the competent authorities seek …
Editorial team - 31, January 2023

Church and World Events

In a recent letter sent to the Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences throughout the world, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments exhorts the return of in-person celebrations of the Holy Mass, interrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic. The document is signed by Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of …
Editorial team - 30, September 2020

Church and World Events

In October, about thirty thousand Catholics gathered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in the Sherpur district of Bangladesh to participate in the annual pilgrimage in honour of the Mother of God. Along with the celebration of Holy Mass, the programme included Eucharistic Adoration, a Way of the …
Editorial team - 31, December 2022

Church and World Events

St. Joseph’s Church, located in Stockport, England, was elevated to a Eucharistic Shrine of Perpetual Adoration on October 22, with the specific purpose of praying for new priestly vocations and the sanctification of the clergy. The Mass to inaugurate the shrine was presided over by Bishop Mark Davies, Bishop of …
Editorial team - 30, November 2022

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