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Way of the cross
Conclusive meditation by prefect Kevin Farrell
Dear young people, This evening, we have retraced the painful journey towards the death on the cross that Jesus lived through in the last hours of his earthly life. And we reflected on the human pain ...
Local Churches
With the words of Davide Rondoni and the music of Federico Mantovani, Pope Francis’s text is beginning to be translated into “emotional languages”
Making Pope Francis’s Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia into a cantata for vocal recitation by solists, with a choir and orchestra—this is the initiative sponsored by the diocese of Cremona ...
Laity
Pope Francis has recognized that the 16-year-old Slovak girl was killed in 1944 “in defensum castitatis”
Anna Kolesárová will be beatified: Pope Francis officially recognized her martyrdom in defense of bodily chastity, thus paving the way for the beatification of the young Slovak from the diocese of ...
Ad limina
A Church called to account for her faith in a difficult context
The presence of the Catholic Church and of other Christians in Pakistan continues to be problematic. This was reported by the Bishops of Pakistan who came for their Ad Limina visit a few days ago. The ...
Dicastery
The first interview with the undersecretary of the section for life, Gabriella Gambino: “Giving birth in a horizon of freedom and responsibility, aware of the inviolable value of every human life”
“It seems urgent to me for us, especially in the Church, to work not only to succeed in educating women in their bioethical profile and to make them aware of the challenges they must recognize in ...
Local Churches
From the Archdiocese of Palermo, a document based on the experiences gathered by pastoral care workers compared with the documents of the Church
After long elaboration, the Family Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of Palermo has presented the document “For a Diocesan Itinerary of Marriage Preparation.” The text is the result of the collection ...
#Synod2018
Today the Via Crucis will be presided by Prefect Farrell for the young people gathered for the pre-Synodal meeting
Today, Prefect Kevin Farrell will preside over the Via Crucis that will set out from the cloister of the Basilica of St. John Lateran and go through the streets of Rome. This is one of the events ...
#Synod2018
Pope Francis: "There is no youth; there are young people with their stories that the Church wants to hear”
“What are you looking for in your life? Say it; it will do us good to listen to you.” Pope Francis addressed these words to the young people from around the world who are participating, at the ...
WMOF
The announcement was made on the sidelines of the General Audience: The Pope will participate in the Festival of Families and celebrate the final Mass
Francis will take part in the World Meeting of Families next August in Dublin: he will participate in a special way in the Festival of Testimonies, which will take place on Saturday, August 25th, and ...
Women’s Univers
From Caritas Internationalis, a study table to promote the participation of women in the decision-making spheres of society
This path, starting from the conquests and critical points of the various types of feminism, aims to overcome their logics in the perspective of the “anthropology of the alliance” that Pope Francis ...