News
10/02/2017
FAFCE
Fafce: “Ban on pornography and gratuitous violence on television to protect our children”
The reintroduction of “the ban on pornography and gratuitous violence on television, extending it to other audiovisual channels” to “better protect our children from harmful content and the new ...
09/02/2017
“The most difficult questions come from young people.” In these words of Pope Francis, reported by Fr. Antonio Spadaro in Civiltà Cattolica no. 4000 and published today by the Corriere ...
09/02/2017
The Pontifical John Paul II Institute is promoting a seminar on the pastoral for marginalized families
“Pastoral Commitment with marginalized and poor families” is the theme of the seminar proposed by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family from 2 to 11 May. The event, ...
07/02/2017
Witnessing to the faith
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 ...
06/02/2017
Projects, pilgrimages, workshops, and TV series: the initiatives of the Archdiocese of Toledo for families
“To offer help in deepening the call to holiness in family life.” This idea is the source of the proposals made by the delegation of Family and Life of the Archdiocese of Toledo, which repeats its ...
06/02/2017
A reflection on last summer’s WYD in Krakow, to assess the organization and the fruits; the launch of new projects in view of the 2019 World Youth Day in Panama; and the preparation of the ...
06/02/2017
Last Saturday, Pope Francis met with the participants of the Meeting “Economy and Communion,” entrepreneurial association, based on fraternity and profit sharing, that is a part of the Focolare ...
03/02/2017
The letter sent to us by a teacher, with the drawing of her pupils for the upcoming World Youth Day that will be celebrated in Panama in 2019, came as a nice surprise. Among other things, the teacher, ...
31/01/2017
Balkans
The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Cyril and Methodius, composed of Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia, describe their community as a Church in the diaspora, in predominantly Orthodox or ...
31/01/2017
The memory of St. John Bosco did not go unnoticed at the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, especially so shortly after the beginning of the preparations for the next Assembly of the Synod of ...
31/01/2017
Egypt
The Synod of the Church of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria is a small community of approximately 200,000 faithful that attests its fidelity to the Gospel in the midst of over 90 million ...
31/01/2017
Laos and Cambodia
The Churches of Cambodia and Laos speak of martyrdom and resurrection. “When I began my missionary activities—said Msgr. Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh and President of the ...
30/01/2017
The parish that Pope Francis has assigned to Card. Farrell is in the suburbs: it is, in fact, the last parish of the diocese of Rome, located a few meters beyond San Giuliano Martyr Church in ...
26/01/2017
The Instrumentum Laboris of the 5th American Missionary Congress has been published—from the crisis to the urgency of saving the family
“America in Mission, the Gospel is Joy” is the catchphrase of the document “The joy of the Gospel: heart of the prophetic mission, source of reconciliation and communion,” the Instrumentum Laboris ...
26/01/2017
The story of Judith presented by Pope Francis at the General Audience on Wednesday, January 25th, is that of a humble and courageous woman. She was more courageous than the men because she was humble ...