Focus on Faith

1491-1556 FEAST July 31 Born in his family’s ancestral Basque castle, Inigo Lopez de Loyola was a page in Castile and a soldier wounded in battle […]

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12
Second reading: Romans 8:28-30
Gospel: Matthew 13:44-52 or 13:44-46

Canonization going beyond the Catholic church and marriage outside the Catholic church.

Father Giulio Cirignano examines the possible reasons behind what he sees as a “disconcerting fact” — that a large part of the Catholic lay faithful have recognized the “kairos” or favorable occasion God is offering the church today while other Catholics, who are “closer to poorly enlightened pastors, are kept within an old horizon.”

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: Isaiah 55:10-11
Second reading: Romans 8:18-23
Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23

First Century FEAST July 12 Veronica does not appear in the Roman Martyrology, the church’s official list of feasts. According to legend, she was the woman […]

c. 480-550 FEAST July 11 What’s known about the father of Western monasticism is from the “Dialogues of (Pope) St. Gregory the Great.” Sent to Rome […]

Pope Francis will beatify a priest and a bishop martyred in Colombia when he visits the country in September 8.