Your voice will make a difference! Pope Francis has invited and encouraged... parishioners and former parishioners, Catholics and former Catholics... to take part in synodal listening sessions and to add our voices to help him discern the Holy Spirit’s guidance for the mission that Jesus gave to each community in His Body. It is through hearing all perspectives that we can truly understand where our journey is meant to lead us. But first we must start by sharing our voices.
We hope you accept this invitation and answer the Pope's call by scheduling a One-on-One Conversation.
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There are no United States African American saints and a petition to Pope Francis requests that he name Venerable Pierre Toussain, Venerable Henriette DeLille, Fr. Augustus Tolton, Julia Greeley, Mother Mary Lange and Sr. Thea Bowman as saints.
For more more information on these men and women and the link to the online petition.
The novena will be said at weekend Masses, beginning on Saturday, May 21, at St. James and will end on Sunday, July 17, at St. Bede's 11 am Mass.
Saint Mary Magdalene's Feast is on July 22.
The novena may be said for any nine days.
Mission
We offer news, resources and community for LGBTQ Catholics, their families, those who minister to them in the Catholic Church worldwide. Through our website and conferences, we also aim to raise up people, parishes, schools and other Catholic ministries that are offering inspiring stories and providing a welcoming home for LGBTQ people.
Outreach, under the auspices of America Media, a Jesuit ministry, is rooted in the love of Jesus, who reached out to those who were excluded; inspired by the saints who cared for those who were neglected; and grounded in the church’s call to treat LGBTQ people with “respect, compassion and sensitivity” (Catechism #2358). We also hope to offer a place where church leaders, both clergy and lay, can encounter the LGBTQ faithful as well as engage in respectful dialogue. Pope Francis’s model of “closeness, compassion and tenderness” towards the LGBTQ community inspires us in our ministry of outreach.
We hope to help LGBTQ Catholics know that God loves them, that they are at the heart of their church and that they have many gifts to offer the People of God.
Fr. Thomas Burke is the host of the radio program, Catholic Education Plus, which highlights elementary and secondary schools; colleges; youth ministry programs; and more; and is broadcast every other Sunday morning on KDKA-Radio
Pope Francis consecrated humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
From the prayer:
“Therefore, Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine. Accept this act that we carry out with confidence and love. Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world. The “Fiat” that arose from your heart opened the doors of history to the Prince of Peace. We trust that, through your heart, peace will dawn once more. To you we consecrate the future of the whole human family, the needs and expectations of every people, the anxieties and hopes of the world. “