Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Thursday Saint of the Day

 

St. Engelbert




Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, slain by hired assassins and venerated as a martyr. He was the son of the count of Berg and became the possessor of many benefices. Engelbert was excommunicated but was restored into union with the Church. He became the archbishop of Cologne in 1217, at the age of thirty. In this office he proved his mettle and became tutor to the son of Emperor Frederick II. In 1222 he crowned Henry King of the Romans. Engelbert was slain by his cousin Frederick, whom he had thwarted in an attempt to steal from the nuns of Essen. Engelbert was ambushed at Gevelsberg and murdered on November 7.


Wednesday Papal General Audience of 11.06.2024

 

Pope at Audience: As we pray, the Holy Spirit comes to our aid

During his weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis continues his reflections on the Holy Spirit and marvels how the Spirit operates in our prayer.

By Deborah Castellano Lubov

"Christian prayer is not man at one end of the telephone, speaking to God on the other; no, it is God who prays in us! We pray to God through God."

Pope Francis offered this encouragement to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square during his Wednesday General Audience.

READ POPE FRANCIS' FULL ADDRESS AT THE GENERAL AUDIENCE HERE

As he continued his catechesis series on the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church, the Pope transitioned from discussing sacraments to discussing Christian prayer.

"The sanctifying action of the Holy Spirit, in addition to the Word of God and the Sacraments," the Pope began, "is expressed in prayer," saying that for this reason he wished to dedicate to it this morning's reflection.

The Pope reminded that the Holy Spirit is both the subject and object of Christian prayer. "That is, He is the One who gives prayer and He is the One who is given by prayer."

"We pray to receive the Holy Spirit, and we receive the Holy Spirit in order to truly pray," the Pope said, noting that in this way we pray as children of God, not as slaves.

Holy Spirit and prayer

First of all, the Pope said, we must pray to receive the Holy Spirit. "In this regard," he recalled, "Jesus has a very precise word in the Gospel: “If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” (Lk 11:13).

The Pope said that our praying is "the only 'power' we have over the Spirit of God, and that the Holy Spirit is He who gives us the gift of true prayer.

How to pray

It is true, the Pope said, we do not know how to pray.  "Yes, the Holy Spirit comes to aid us in our weakness, but He does something far more important," Pope Francis added, "He testifies to us that we are children of God and puts on our lips the cry: “Abba! Father!'"  

In prayer, the Pope said, the Holy Spirit is revealed as the “Paraclete”, that is, our advocate and defender. He does not accuse us before the Father, but defends us.

"Even when our heart reproaches us for something," he noted, the Holy Spirit "reminds us that 'God is greater than our hearts.'” 

Prayer multiplies

The Holy Spirit, the Pope said, not only intercedes for us, but also teaches us how to intercede for our brothers and sisters. Moreover, he add,  "He teaches us the prayer of intercession," a prayer, the Pope said, "is particularly pleasing to God, because it is the most gratuitous and altruistic."

"When someone prays for everyone," the Pope marveled, "it happens – as Saint Ambrose noted – that everyone prays for someone; prayer multiplies." 

Pope Francis concluded by saying to prepare ourselves ahead of the upcoming Jubilee, "to unite ourselves to the Paraclete who “intercedes for the saints according to God's plans.'”

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Saint for Wednesday

 

St. Leonard

Feastday: November 6
Patron: of political prisoners, imprisoned people, prisoners of war, and captives, women in labour, as well as horses
Death: 559



According to unreliable sources, he was a Frank courtier who was converted by St. Remigius, refused the offer of a See from his godfather, King Clovis I, and became a monk at Micy. He lived as a hermit at Limoges and was rewarded by the king with all the land he could ride around on a donkey in a day for his prayers, which were believed to have brought the Queen through a difficult delivery safely. He founded Noblac monastery on the land so granted him, and it grew into the town of Saint-Leonard. He remained there evangelizing the surrounding area until his death. He is invoked by women in labor and by prisoners of war because of the legend that Clovis promised to release every captive Leonard visited. His feast day is November 6.

Abortion is a big issue in this 2024 election

 

Candidates’ stance on abortion,

ballot measures on issue play major role 

for Catholics in election




A Minnesota voter wears his "I Voted" sticker after casting an early ballot in St. Paul Nov. 1, 2024. (OSV News/Maria Wiering)


(OSV News) — “Abortion has overtaken immigration to become the second most important issue for voters heading into the 2024 election,” Newsweek, the global media organization, reported Oct. 21 on what its polling has found.

Four years ago — just two weeks prior to the last U.S. presidential election — a Pew Research poll indicated more than half of American Catholics (56%) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Whether or not those attitudes have shifted during the intervening Biden administration could have a profound impact on the Nov. 5 electoral hopes of both the Republican nominee, former President Donald J. Trump, or the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Abortion is arguably the most contentious topic facing Americans today,” Natalie Dodson, policy analyst at the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, told OSV News in an email. “If public opinion has changed, it’s not that Americans are radically pro-abortion, but instead, that the public has been sold a lie about how the abortion industry functions,” she added.

“The average American,” Dodson noted, “does not support abortion up to birth, but they also do not support a complete ban, which poses a challenge for pro-life advocates who must take an incremental approach to abortion.”

Despite Trump having nominated the U.S. Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, his campaign website makes no specific mention of abortion among its “20 Core Promises” platform.

Nor does the campaign’s Catholics for Trump webpage — which declares “President Trump did more for Catholics than any administration in history!” — mention the defeat of Roe v. Wade. Instead, it notes, “In 2018, Trump became the first president to address the March for Life rally and declared January 20, 2019 the National Sanctity of Human Life Day.”

Early in his drive to return to the White House, Trump frequently took credit for the downfall of Roe. In a May 2023 tweet representative of that, he asserted, “After 50 years of failure … I was able to kill Roe v. Wade. … Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.”

However, as the nation’s mood indicated the unpopularity of abortion bans among many — according to a May 2024 Pew Research Center poll, 63% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases — Trump has been less vocal about what he earlier regarded as an accomplishment.

During an Oct. 16 Fox News town hall, Trump also suggested some abortion laws are too strict.

“It’s going to be redone,” he said. “They’re going to …you end up with a vote of the people. They’re too tough, too tough. And those are going to be redone because already there’s a movement in those states.”

In the midst of the same town hall, Trump declared himself “the father of IVF” — in vitro fertilization.

IVF treatments, which fertilize an egg outside the body in a laboratory dish, are opposed by the Catholic Church because, in addition to other ethical and moral issues, they frequently involve the destruction of human embryos.

On Aug. 29, Trump announced that if he’s elected, “your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment.”

“It is not uncommon to see politicians shift at the whim of public opinion,” observed Dodson, “and this is a unique election as it is the first since the overturning of Roe. But pro-lifers have faced an uphill climb since 1973. While overturning Roe was a critical step toward forming a society that better protects life at all stages, there is still much work to be done.”

“To move the needle on abortion,” suggested Dodson, “there must be a concerted effort to share with the public the moral concerns of abortion and its harms.”

Harris’ campaign website — and the Democratic Party platform — highlight abortion, primarily contrasting her support for access to it with the restrictions her campaign predicts Trump will enact if elected.

However, the vice president has been clear that it is a priority should she be elected.

On Oct. 26, Harris promised a Michigan campaign rally audience, “I pledge to you, when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.”

Interviewed the same day by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell, Harris reflected that prior to Roe’s demise, “women, in consultation, if they chose, with their priest, their pastor, their rabbi, their imam were able to make those (decisions).”

When O’Donnell asked Harris if she also supported abortion restrictions after viability, Harris replied, “I support Roe v. Wade being put back into law by Congress, and to restore the fundamental right of women to make decisions about their own body. It is that basic.”

In her Aug. 22 Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance speech, Harris declared Republicans to be “out of their minds” on pro-life issues — warning that, if elected, Trump would restrict access to birth control, ban medication abortion (at least 63% of all 2023 U.S. abortions were medication abortions), and enact a nationwide abortion ban.

Trump responded he’d leave the abortion issue to the states, a position reflected by the Republican Party platform.

This November, abortion-related questions will appear on the ballot in 10 states this November. Initiatives in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Maryland and Colorado are intended to enshrine a right to abortion in the state constitution. One in Nebraska aims to prohibit it, and one in New York to expand anti-discrimination laws to include reproductive health.

Harris repeated her August claims at an Oct. 30 rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as later in the day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

“He would ban abortion nationwide. He would restrict access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies,” she told the crowd.

Trump has said he opposes restrictions on birth control and hasn’t suggested the government should monitor pregnancies.

Father Shenan Boquet, president of Human Life International, urged Catholic voters to engage in the challenging work of a fully formed conscience.

“Though we are dealing, obviously, with two imperfect platforms — and imperfect candidates that represent those platforms — there are distinguishable differences between them,” said Father Boquet, a priest of the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese in Louisiana.

“From the Catholic perspective, obviously we’re looking at the human dignity; we’re making sure that as we’re looking at candidates and platforms, that we are seeking a candidate that’s going to advance the principle for voting and defending and serving human dignity, and protecting the vulnerable and the weak,” Father Boquet advised. “And as any voter should be — whether they’re Catholic or not — to look at, how does this affect the common good? How does this affect society?”

“As a Catholic,” he continued, “I have a right — through voting — to express those principles, and to advance those principles, and obviously to express my religious beliefs for the good of my own society and the good of my own country.”

Father Boquet further clarified those principles.

“There are what the church defines as intrinsic evils, which we can never advocate for, and we can never advance. And at the same time, there are some moral issues that are not equal to those, but still are part of our prudential judgment,” he added, citing immigration, human trafficking, and health care.

“That’s why the bishops have been very clear in their teaching to us — to make sure that we are not equating them, and that we are looking at those core issues that we can never advance or participate in, and,” Father Boquet asked, “what can we do to mitigate them, what we can do to lessen the harm, and how can we advance the good?”

“Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” a document published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, states, “Issues that directly affect human lives — such as abortion and euthanasia — are fundamental and demand serious consideration.”

For Helen Alvaré — a professor in Law and Liberty at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia, who cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations as a speaker and delegate to U.N. conferences on women and the family — America’s abortion dialogue talks about everything except the reality of the procedure itself.

“I don’t think there’s reflection about this promotion of abortion — particularly in the Harris campaign — and what it actually says about the country, because of what abortion actually is,” she said.

“Nobody put it better than John Paul II in ‘Evangelium Vitae’ — which is that the next generation can be killed precisely by the people most responsible and capable of protecting them, when they are at their most vulnerable. And this,” she declared, “is really the fact of each and every abortion procedure. The idea of allowing that, first of all — let alone celebrating it as some kind of victory for women — is really grotesque. It’s grotesque and brutal.”

Alvaré didn’t hesitate to say so in an Oct. 11 Newsweek opinion piece.

“I wanted people to reflect on that,” she told OSV News. “And I have no idea if people will. But I’m very sad that it is not being spoken more specifically in this way by pro-life interest groups and candidates.”

Refusing to engage the violence of abortion, Alvaré suggested, is a telling indicator of American optimism — or the lack of it.

“I’d love both sides of the political aisle to think about what abortion is,” said Alvaré, “and what it says about some kind of despair regarding the future that we seem to be experiencing right now as Americans.”

In this election, some Christians turn to the American Solidarity Party

 Why are some Christians opting for the American Solidarity Party?

(RNS) — The American Solidarity Party is gaining traction with a subset of highly engaged Christian voters who see their pro-life commitments as more expansive than just opposing abortion.



Peter Sonski, presidential candidate of the American Solidarity Party, with running mate Lauren Onak. Courtesy American Solidarity Party website.

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

November 4, 2024

(RNS) — Some Christians who consider themselves more “pro-life” than just anti-abortion have had enough.

Disenchanted with Donald Trump and no longer home in a party that this summer abandoned its plank opposing abortion, this subset of highly engaged Christian voters has been turning to the eight-year-old American Solidarity Party.

“The weird way that the two-party system here has grown means that you kind of have to pick which vulnerable person you want to help protect. And a lot of people just get tired of that,” said Lauren Onak, the party’s vice presidential candidate, who is a stay-at-home mom and self-described “community organizer” from a Boston suburb.

Onak cites both “the unborn” and “people living in Gaza” as examples of concerns close to their hearts that neither major party consistently defends.

Discussed since 2011 but only legally incorporated in 2016, the party calls itself “the fastest-growing political party in the United States.” In its first presidential cycle, its candidate drew 6,697 votes, then 42,305 in the 2020 presidential campaign. This year, the party is on the ballot in six states and has write-in access in the majority.

Peter Sonski, the party’s presidential candidate, is a highly involved Catholic, as is Onak. While the party has attracted some high-profile evangelical Christian boosters, many of the most enthusiastic supporters of the party are Catholic, and the party’s platform closely resembles the Vatican’s guidance on public policy issues and Catholic social teaching.

Pope Francis has called both Kamala Harris and Trump “against life” for their stances on abortion and migration, respectively.

Sonski, a graduate of The Catholic University of America, worked for eight years as director of communications at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and previously served as assistant editor at the National Catholic Register, owned by EWTN News.

The father of nine, who lives in Connecticut, is against the death penalty and assisted suicide and has served in local office for more than 12 years, most recently on his local board of education.

American Media podcast host Gloria Purvis, a former host of an EWTN radio show, has educated Catholics about the American Solidarity Party.

“It’s no secret that Harris-Walz is pro-abortion,” she told RNS. “That’s not news, but what is news to many is that Trump-Vance support abortion and IVF and a host of other anti-life positions. What’s also news to people is that there is a third party that doesn’t support any of that.” Purvis has also said the “racist rhetoric” of the Trump campaign undermines “a culture of life.”

The ASP platform opposes abortion, in-vitro fertilization, the death penalty, euthanasia, no-fault divorce, same-sex marriage, gestational surrogacy, pornography, cash bail, federal subsidies for fossil fuels, highway expansion, most military intervention and American arms sales to foreign countries. It promotes guaranteed universal health care, labor unions, “generous” asylum policies, a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children and subsidies for Indigenous land restoration.

Its candidates speak the language of Catholic social teaching, and Onak’s underlined the importance of local political races. “The Solidarity approach is building up communities,” she said. “It’s based on the principle of subsidiarity; the people closest to a decision should be stakeholders in making that decision.”

Onak emphasized that, while driven by Christian thinking, the party embraces religious pluralism and is not a Christian nationalist movement. Instead its leaders apply Christian ideas “to policy in ways that can help everyone,” noting that “everybody comes with their perspective.”

Six party members are currently in local elected office, and beyond the Sonski-Onak ticket, 13 are running for office: three for the U.S. Senate, one for the U.S. House of Representatives, two for state legislatures, two for other state positions, and five for the Lombard library board in Illinois.

Of those, only two are women. Onak said that while many couples are involved in the party, often only one spouse runs for office, adding, “There can be for women, at least in my experience, a sort of intimidation around politics or thinking that you need to be an expert to jump in,” a misconception she is working to dispel.

Onak voted for the American Solidarity Party presidential candidate in 2020, but first logged on to a party meeting shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Having grown up in a Democratic family, she said she became a single-issue abortion Republican voter in college. But witnessing the events of Jan. 6 and their fallout “and realizing that people had really stopped communicating and trying to see things from each other’s point of view,” Onak said, “I felt like I needed to contribute to the political world in a way that felt positive, that felt in line with my values.”

“I felt like my children would ask me, what did you do to make things better?” she said, “and I wanted to have an answer.”

While Catholics have taken the most prominent roles in the party, particularly this election cycle, some Protestants have become vocal advocates. Matthew Martens, a lawyer and author of the 2023 book “Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal,” has written several articles, many social media posts and appeared on a Christianity Today podcast speaking about his support for the party.

Martens said his affiliation as a Southern Baptist may cause people to draw certain political conclusions; he’s largely voted Republican, but never for Trump. “I believe based on the teaching of Scripture that the fundamental obligation of government is to protect innocent life at all its stages,” Martens said. “When I have the major party candidates of both parties disclaiming that obligation, I don’t think I can, as a moral matter, vote for them,” he said.

Martens occasionally disagrees with the party on tactical issues but wholeheartedly supports its goals. “I haven’t found Protestants who are put off by the platform merely because it has a close alignment with Catholic social teaching.”

Sonski and Onak are not the only faith-based alternative candidates inspired by dissatisfaction with the two major parties. Running to the left of the Democrats is Cornel West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary, who is on the ballot in 16 states, according to his campaign. 

West’s campaign says his campaign began during a “national crisis of moral bankruptcy and spiritual obscenity driven by a derelict duopoly of both major parties that equally places profits over people and the planet.” His vice presidential candidate, Melina Abdullah, is Muslim.

Also running on the left is Claudia De la Cruz, of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is on the ballot in 18 states. De la Cruz, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and former pastor of a United Church of Christ church, cites liberation theology as the inspiration for her organizing work.

In an incredibly close race between Trump and Harris, the votes that go to third-party candidates in swing states could decide the race. De la Cruz and West are on the ballot in Wisconsin, and West is also on the ballot in Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan.

According to Onak, taking votes from the major parties is part of the long-term strategy of the party because she sees it as a vehicle to effect policy change. “If every pro-lifer voted for us this campaign, the GOP would definitely think twice about having taken out language from its platform, which they did, protecting the unborn,” she said. 

But their policy supporting direct cash payments to families has gained traction in both parties, she said, explaining they hope to drive support for their other policy priorities.

Podcast host Purvis said her hope for Catholics is that “we can again not be consumed by idolatry and seduced by temporal power and choose to follow the risen Christ who’s often found in the face of the poor and the oppressed,” and that “Catholics will not be beholden so much to parties that don’t speak for them.”

She also hopes that “the American Solidarity Party is able to change the conversation and the outlook of American politics writ large.”

Ultimately, Onak said that seeing people become reengaged and hopeful about the political process has been the best part of the campaign.

“We want to give you someone to vote for and not against, and we think candidates should earn your vote, not scare you enough that you vote for their opponent,” she said. “We really want people to be able to walk away from the ballot box on election day feeling good about their choice.”

The Pope visits Gregorian University - be beggars for knowledge

 

Pope Francis at the Gregorian UniversityPope Francis at the Gregorian University  (Vatican Media)

Pope at Gregorian University: Scholars should be ‘beggars for knowledge'

Pope Francis visits Rome’s recently restructured Gregorian University – which dates back to the 16th century – and reflects on its mission in the world today.

By Joseph Tulloch

Earlier this year, the Pontifical Gregorian University – a renowned Jesuit-run institution founded by St Ignatius in the 16th century – merged with the nearby Pontifical Biblical and Oriental institutes.

On Tuesday, 5th November, Pope Francis paid a visit to the newly-merged institution, and delivered a lengthy lectio magistralis to assembled faculty, staff, and students.


A return to the origins

In his address, the Pope reflected on the sign that once hung on the door of a Jesuit house in the centre of 16th century Rome  – the institution that would one day become the Roman College and, later, the Gregorian University.

The sign, the Pope said, read: “School of grammar, humanities, and Christian doctrine”.

What can we learn today, the Pope asked, from this simple sign? The first lesson, he suggested, comes from the mixture of subjects the Jesuits offered, blending religious sciences with humanities. Today, he suggested, this reads as an invitation to “humanise the religious sciences, to ignite and reanimate the spark of grace in what is human.”

The second lesson, the Pope said, can be drawn from the fact that the lessons were offered for free (in Italian ‘gratis).

It is this gratuitousness, the Pope said, that “opens us to the surprises of God … It is gratuitousness that educates without manipulating, that rejoices in growth and fosters imagination.”

‘Beggars for knowledge’

Pope Francis also stressed the necessity of humility in Catholic education.

For too long, he said, “the sacred sciences looked down on everyone else”, with a mentality of “us vs the others” – an approach, he stressed, which led to “many mistakes.”

Now, the Pope said, is the time for teachers in the Church “to be humble, to acknowledge that we do not know everything … This is a complex world and research calls for everyone’s input.”

What is needed, the Pope urged, are universities with “less hierarchy, more tables side-by-side - everyone a beggar for knowledge, touching the wounds of history.”

A broader vision

Reflecting on the recent merger of the Gregorian, the Pope said he had given his approval in the hope that it would not be a case of “mere administrative restructuring”, but rather the occasion for “a redefinition of your mission”.

In this regard, the Pope warned university staff against limiting themselves to “mergers, suspensions and closures” without a broader vision of “what is happening in the world and the Church”.

“Have you asked yourself,” the Pope questioned, “where you are going and why you are doing the things you are doing? You have to know where you’re going, and not lose sight of the horizon.”

Monday, November 4, 2024

Saints for Tuesday: the parents of John the Baptist

 

This Saint is the father of John the Baptist

 

St. Zachary




Zachary was a priest in Jerusalem whose wife, Elizabeth, Mary's cousin, was beyond child-bearing age. He was told by an angel in a vision that they would have a son and should name him John. When he doubted this, he was struck dumb. Elizabeth was visited by Mary, at which time Mary spoke the hymn of praise now known at the Magnificat, and after John's birth, Zachary's speech was restored. This is all that is known of Elizabeth and Zachary, and is found in the New Testament in Luke, Chapter 1. An unvarifiable tradition has Zachary murdered in the Temple when he refused to tell Herod where his son John was to be found. Their feast day is November 5th.

This Saint is the Mother of John the Baptist

 

St. Elizabeth




What we know of St. Elizabeth comes from the Gospel, the book of Luke, in particular. In Luke, Elizabeth, a daughter of the line of Aaron, and the wife of Zechariah, was "righteous before God" and was "blameless" but childless. Elizabeth is also a cousin to the Virgin Mary.

Zechariah, desiring a child, went to pray in the temple and was told by the angel Gabriel, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born." (Luke 1:13-15).

Zechariah was skeptical because both himself and his wife were elderly. For his skepticism, Zechariah was rendered mute until the prophecy had been fulfilled.

Elizabeth became pregnant shortly thereafter and she rejoiced.

Gabriel then visited the Virgin Mary at Nazareth, telling her that she would conceive of the Holy Spirit and become the mother of Jesus.

Mary then visited Elizabeth, and her baby leapt in her womb. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth proclaimed to Mary, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!" (Luke 1:41-45).

Mary visited with Elizabeth for three months, both women pregnant with child. After Mary returned home, Elizabeth gave birth to a son and named him John. This child was chosen by God to be John the Baptist. John would baptize Christ as an example to all, that all must be reborn of water and spirit.

Although Elizabeth's neighbors assumed the child would be named Zechariah, her husband insisted that John be his name. This astonished the neighbors for there were no men named John in Elizabeth's family, but Zechariah's insistence ended the debate. At the moment, Zechariah insisted that they obey the will of God, and name him John, his speech returned.

After this, there is no more mention in the Bible about Elizabeth.

There are mentions of Elizabeth in the apocryphal works, but these are not within the cannon of the Bible. In the Apocrypha, it mentions that her husband, Zechariah, was murdered in the temple.

St. Elizabeth's feast day is celebrated on November 5.