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  About this time last year, the Vatican released the statistical data of Catholics worldwide. Data from the Vatican Publishing House for the Pontifical Yearbook 2025 and the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2023, compiled by the Central Office of Church Statistics, a department of the Secretariat of State​, said that as of December 31, 2023, the […]

  Today’s celebration brings together three profound themes. First, it commemorates the Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Palm Sunday. Second, it ushers in the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred time in the Christian calendar. Third, and most importantly, it reminds us of the immense price paid for our redemption and the spiritual freedom

  I don’t remember if the adjective “superabundance” is an English word or if the labeling as an adjective is even correct. I have no idea! However, I have chosen to speak about that word today in connection to my sense of the meaning of God’s Love for us (all of us, without exception) as

The Kintsugi Way of Mending Pottery Cracks & Eucharistic Healing. 03/30/25. Chima Offurum. As I was thinking about this Weekend’s celebrations, I asked myself one question, which I am turning around to ask you who are listening or reading this message today: Have you ever been so hungry or thirsty that all you want is

The World of Wonder and Curiosity. Chima Offurum. 03/23/25. Earlier this week, on Tuesday, March 18, four astronauts returned to the Earth after being stranded in Space for two hundred and eighty-six days. That was big news around the world. The earlier plan was to spend only ten days out there, but technical concerns twisted

The Pomegranate Plant Experience. By Chima Offurum. 03/16/25. Some of us have the pomegranate plant in our homes; some may have never seen it but enjoy its fruit. It grows in many world regions, including Africa and the United States. I love the pomegranate tree. It contains many robust heart health and anti-inflammatory benefits. It

Lent is the special season when we offer ourselves anew to God. Fr. Chima Offurum. Our Lenten journey has just begun. With this Holy Eucharistic celebration, we are already five days down and about six more weeks, plus/minus, to go. It is a very sober time to reflect on our lives and direction. It is

The Ọfọ sculpture has a strong significance in Igboland. It stands for several values, including authority, truth, and justice. In some areas, people magnify it to stand also for purity, and that’s understandable given that purity and truth are inseparable qualities. My father is currently the oldest person in my kindred, and by that fact,

Essentially, our life consists of the physical and spiritual that we often do not see. Living within time and space, our preoccupation frequently concerns what gratifies the physical or the flesh and not what enriches the spiritual me. Imagine the level of transformation or self-enhancement that Saul could have if he worked as hard for