A collective of women farmers has taken to millet cultivation to improve incomes, nutrition as well as fight climate change Millets seem to be everywhere these days: from curated food festivals to ...

DoC rangers Ricki Mitchell and Lana Handley had set up a camp at Hinapouri Tarn, near Mt Angelus, early last week on an excursion to monitor kea in the national park. “It was a last-minute ...

In our time Pope Paul VI has expounded, at great length, the value of the Angelus in the last section of his apostolic exhortation on proper devotion to Mary, Marialis Cultus (1974). There is a ...

A firefighter works near homes during a weather-driven windstorm in Altadena on Jan. 8, that fueled ferocious wildfires. The fires tore across Southern California, including Pacific Palisades, Sylmar ...

V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, And blessed is the fruit of thy ...

Umbrellas dotted St. Peter’s Square on the rainy Sunday afternoon as Jubilee pilgrims braved the weather to hear Pope Francis give his Angelus message on Jan. 5, 2025. (photo: Vatican Media ...

Is. 60:1-6 / Ps. 72:12, 7-8, 10-13 / Eph. 3:2-3, 5-6 / Mt. 2:1-12 An “epiphany” is an appearance. In today’s readings, with their rising stars, splendorous lights and mysteries revealed, the face of ...

In his first Angelus address of 2025, Pope Francis called on Christian nations to set an example through debt relief for the world’s poorest countries and renewed his plea for peace in global ...

Millet painted The Angelus, and The Gleaners. Old Max Liebermann has done Women Plucking Geese, An Asylum for Old Men, The Flax Spinners—and recently The Polo Team. *Shrewd Max Liebermann did ...

As per popular folklore, our forefathers migrated from a region in Afghanistan around 1000 AD and settled in this area — present-day Jhajjar district of Haryana. Why in their wisdom they settled ...

The year 2023 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of the Millet, following a proposal by India, which wants to position itself as a global hub for millets.

Visit the homepage for more information. A: There is no single author of the Angelus, unless we attribute the origin of the Angelus to St. Luke, the author of the Lukan Gospel. Indeed, we find in Luke ...