Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the fourth-annual Sunday of the Word of God, during which he, for the first time, formally conferred upon lay Catholics the ministries of ...

An icon allows the viewer to contemplate the holiness of the person represented in the icon and experience the presence of God.” Sophia Mason Feingold writes from Washington. Keywords: ...

On Jan. 26, the Catholic Church commemorates the Sunday of the Word of God, established by Pope Francis in 2019. Friday, July 04, 2025.

Vatican City, Jan 23, 2022 / 15:10 pm. On Word of God Sunday, Pope Francis reminded Christians that God speaks to them through scripture, filling them with hope and guiding their journey of faith.

God wants "a church that does not speak from itself or about itself but has in its heart and on its lips the Lord and draws daily from his word," the pope told members of the Catholic Biblical ...

Likewise, it affirms that the word of God is found in all creation, especially in the human person, and in the cultures that are humanity’s collective expression.