Local Church
World Meeting of Families
“The family of Nazareth persecuted and refugeed in Egypt is the icon of so many Syrian families. Nearly half of the population has been forced to leave their homes, their villages and neighborhoods: ...
WMOF: Eamon Martin
We are called to be missionaries for the cause of life
As people “inspired by the Gospel of life and the Gospel of the family, we are all called to be ‘missionaries for the cause of life,’ at home in our families but also in our parishes, communities, ...
Life
Bishop Sousa denounces fake news and inflated numbers intended to influence public opinion
Some pro-abortion organizations and newspapers have tried to influence public opinion in Brazil, by inflating the numbers of induced abortions performed each year in the country. The denunciation was ...
Abortion
In Brazil, the debate on the decriminalization of abortion has begun
A call to defend life from conception to natural death has been launched by the Brazilian Bishops in view of the debate on a proposal to decriminalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy up to the ...
Lay Saints
The Diocese of Rome has launched the process with the Edict: “Her oblation is a beacon of hope”
“We think of the saints as heroes, as people capable of doing special things. No, it’s not like that; the experience of God is never taken for granted.” These are the words of Father Vito D’Amato, ...
Ukraine
For the first time in Lviv (Ukraine), a forum of the representatives from the various youth ministries of both the Latin Rite and Ukrainian Greek Rite Catholics has been celebrated
“Young Catholics in Ukraine share the same dreams and experiences, no matter whether they are Latin Rite or Ukrainian Greek Rite Catholics. First of all, they long to build closer ties with the ...
Local Churches
A Document from the Australian Bishops’ Conference on the the Ministry of the Laity
“Faithful Stewards of God’s Grace” is the title of the document on the Lay Pastoral Ministry in the Church in Australia, published by the National Conference on the New Evangelization, Proclaim ...
Ad Limina
Ad Limina Vista of Uganda’s Bishops
On June 22nd, the Bishops of Uganda came to our Dicastery for their Ad Limina Visit to Rome. The theme at the center of the exchange between the African Bishops and the Superiors of the Dicastery were ...
Local Churches
During their recent Plenary assembly, the Polish Bishops adopted “Pastoral Guidelines for the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia.” The document—a note published by the Bishops’ Press Office ...
Sports
A few days ago, the relay team “Evangelii Gaudium” shined forth with a great victory at the XII Super Marathon of Etna, a race of 43 km, from the coasts in the province of Catania to the summit of ...