World Sick Day

By: Cindy Wooden A health care worker comforts an eldery patient at a hospital in Blackburn, England, May 14, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In his message for the Feb. 11 celebration of the World Day of the Sick, Pope Francis called on Christians to practice what they preach, including by guaranteeing equal access to […]

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

“The Lord is always — always — close to us. He is close to us with new possibilities, new ideas, new consolations, but always close to us. You know that the Lord is eternal; he never, ever goes into retirement,” the pope wrote in his message for the Catholic Church’s first celebration of the World […]