How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended. And yet the Gospel shows us that there is always a way to continue to love, even when everything seems irredeemably compromised.

Today, Pope Leo invites everyone around the world to commemorate the feast day of the Queenship of Mary by fasting and offering up prayers for peace in places ravaged by violence. "I invite all the faithful to devote the day of 22 August to fasting and prayer, imploring the Lord

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In life, we don't have to have everything under control. We can be content to choose to love freely every day. This is true hope: We know know that, even in the darkness of trial, God’s love sustains us and ripens the fruit of eternal life in us. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

"As a Church, we are following the tragic news from Annunciation School in Minneapolis with heartbreaking sadness. Whenever one part of the Body of Christ is wounded, we feel the pain as if it were our very own children. Let us all beg the Lord for the protection and healing of

Our Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to Italy began today with Mass in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls at the tomb of St Paul whose words from his letter to the Church of Rome have encouraged us all: “Hope does not disappoint!”

A great blessing to meet our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV and to offer greetings and prayers to him on behalf of all of the faithful of the Diocese of Scranton

Our final full day of pilgrimage concluded with a visit to Gubbio - sister city of Jessup in our diocese. Mass on the mountain top at the tomb of St Ubaldo

Dear friends, today I turn seventy years old. I give thanks to the Lord and to my parents; and I thank all those who have remembered me in their prayers.

We live as if life were never enough. We rush to produce, to prove ourselves, to keep up. But the Gospel teaches us that knowing how to stop is an act of trust that we must learn to perform. Life does not always depend on what we do, but also in knowing how to let go of what we

I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forced once again from their own lands. Before Almighty God, who commanded “Thou shalt not kill,” and throughout human history, every person

We are so fortunate Bp. Joseph C Bambera Diocese of Scranton celebrated Mass at 3 of our schools this week--SJN Boys Basketball & Holy Redeemer HS. The Bishop reminded students by promoting peace, respect, & love to all people, they will become saints themselves, just like St. Carlo Acutis.

Living synodality in the #Family requires “walking together,” sharing sorrows and joys, engaging in respectful and sincere dialogue among all members, and learning to listen to one another and make important family decisions together. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Joining with thousands from around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the annual March for Life - including hundreds from throughout our diocese from parishes and schools - to stand up for life!

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In a world where the most vulnerable are the first to suffer the devastating effects of climate change, deforestation, and pollution, care for creation becomes an expression of our faith and humanity. #SeasonOfCreation

Blessed to be with over 600 faithful from our diocese at our Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to the Basilica to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC

“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you” (Lk 11:9). “To ask,” in fact, is to recognize, through poverty, that everything is a gift from the Lord and to give thanks for it. “To seek” is to open oneself, through obedience,

Those who suffer know how great even a small gesture of affection can be, and how much relief it can bring. No sign of affection, even the smallest, will ever be forgotten by the Lord, especially if it is shown to those who are suffering, lonely, or in need. #DilexiTe

Let us never forget the fundamental importance, at every level, of respect for life and its protection at all stages—from conception to old age, and up to the moment of death. I hope this awareness will continue to grow, especially regarding access to medical care and medicines.