Laity

  Pope Francis’ solicitude for the family, the attention he has given to it since the beginning of his ministry and with which he continues to surround it, is also conveyed through the processes ...

Sport represents the “joy of moving … of being together,” the “joy for life and the gifts that the Creator bestows on us each day.” However, it also helps to spread a “culture of encounter and ...

Radio Maria USA’s program “Faith and Sport” is dedicated to the sports world, with comments and interviews on the latest news on sports events. However, the program also presents discussions on ...

The preparations for the World Youth Day in Panama are quickly advancing. This morning, a delegation of the Local Organizing Committee, led by Msgr. Ulloa, was received by Card. Farrell and several ...

  Japan’s Justo Takayama Ukon (1552-1615), better known as the ” Christ’s Samurai,” has been beatified in Osaka. The celebration was presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the ...

This is a story of almost anonymous martyrdom. Announcing the news, Jesus Aranda, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Lomin, in the urban zone of Kajo Jeki, said that his only name was Lino, ...

  On Saturday, 20 January, Pope Francis authorized the promulgation of the decree of heroic virtues of the Servant of God Jan Tyranowski, a Polish layman from Krakow, who played an important role ...

Let us not allow children to be deprived of joy! said Pope Francis, speaking personally to all the world’s Bishops on the day when the Church commemorates the Holy Innocents, the children, ...

  Since Monday 14 November 2016 a new book collecting the proceedings of the last year International Sport Seminar is available at the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (the Vatican Bookstore). The ...

At the start of the extraordinary Holy Year of the Redemption 1983-84, Pope John Paul II decided to place a fourmetre high wooden cross in Saint Peter’s Basilica so that everyone could see it. At the ...

In 2009, 17 young volunteers guided by the Centro San Lorenzo took the World Youth Day Cross to those affected by the earthquake in Aquila. It was a time of grace and intense consolation. Desiring ...