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Pope saying grace with 8 homeless people on his 80th birthday. (L'Osservatore Romano)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis celebrates his 80th birthday with the homeless and reflects on the wisdom of getting older.
(iStock photo)
FaithColumns
James Martin, S.J.
Rome for me is a heady place where it’s easy to lose your spiritual bearings.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.
FaithThe Good Word
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?
FaithThe Good Word
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
To submit to the baptism of John is to admit that we don’t always get it right, in a myriad of ways.
Pope Francis accepts a birthday cake from chefs during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 14. The pope will turn 80 Dec. 17. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)
FaithIn All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The pope is turning 80 this Saturday.