Remembering Cardinal Loris Capovilla, our link to a Saint and the Spirit

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Sebastian Gomes

We were once a Church of oral tradition. Long before the New Testament was codified, the stories of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection circulated the Mediterranean world by word of mouth. Chief among these evangelists were Paul and the twelve Apostles, who journeyed far and wide while facing enormous opposition and persecution, eventually being killed […]

Meet the Cardinals: Loris Capovilla – Secretary of John XXIII

Friday, February 21, 2014

Salt + Light Media

By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When the freshly named patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, chose 37-year-old Father Loris Capovilla as his private secretary in 1953, a skeptical adviser told the cardinal that the priest looked too sickly to bear the strain of his new job. “Then he’ll die […]