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May you and I come to see with an open and observant heart. As if for the first time. As if for the last time.

A content creator and photographer, Awah Eric aka Anoodamatta, has 771,00 followers on Facebook, and 73,800 followers on Instagram. He tells NAOMI CHIMA about content creation and other issuesHow did ...

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a downright mythical figure among PC gamers, and a new interview with the man isn't doing anything to break that illusion. Certainly, we have to ask: is a man who ...

By Sebastián Sansón Ferrari The Laudato Si’ Village is a 55-hectare ecological haven nestled within the Pontifical Villas of ...

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic ...

We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

The world is loud. Everyone’s doing something. Hustling, fixing, scrolling, reacting, achieving. We are constantly told that if we stop, even for a moment, we’ll fall behind. That doing nothing is ...

The “Mass for the Care of Creation,” inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, has prayers and Mass readings designed “to ask God for the ability to care for creation.” ...

Vatican Hopes New Mass Prayers Will Renew Care for God’s Creation Cardinal Czerny said Pope Leo XIV will celebrate a private Mass using the new prayer formulas in Castel Gandolfo on July 9.

Pope: God’s creation is not a battleground for vital resources In his Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Leo XIV quotes extensively from Pope Francis’ encyclical ...