Message for the Feast of Vesakh 2017
By Admin Webmaster 5/17/2017 10:47:35 AMDear friends, your founder, the Buddha also heralded a message of nonviolence and peace. He encouraged all to “Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.” (Dhammapada, no. XVII, 3).
Message of his holiness Pope Francis for the 51st world communications day
By Admin Webmaster 4/8/2017 11:12:02 AMSeen in this light, every new tragedy that occurs in the world’s history can also become a setting for good news, inasmuch as love can find a way to draw near and to raise up sympathetic hearts, resolute faces and hands ready to build anew.
Indian bishops prioritize family life
By Admin Webmaster 2/13/2017 3:28:39 PM"We will reach out to those who for several reasons feel estranged from the church… including people who are divorced, those civilly remarried and cohabiting partners,"...
Reflection for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (Feb 11, 2017)
By Admin Webmaster 2/12/2017 5:33:56 PMWhen we honor the Mother of God under the title “Immaculate Conception”, we recognize in her a model of purity, innocence, trust, childlike curiosity, reverence, and respect, living peacefully...
Relationship between Benedict XVI and Francis
By Admin Webmaster 2/11/2017 11:04:12 PMFour Years after Ratzinger’s Renunciation of the Petrine Ministry, the Former Director of the Vatican Press Office Explains that the Relationship between Benedict XVI and Francis is an ”Example of Union in the Church”
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for The 25th World Day of The Sick 2017
By Admin Webmaster 2/11/2017 11:06:12 PMThe theme of this year’s celebration is “Amazement at what God has accomplished: ‘The Almighty has done great things for me….’” (Lk 1:49).
Resources for The Week of prayer for Christian unity and throughout the year 2017 (2)
By Admin Webmaster 1/28/2017 1:56:49 AMGod our Father, in Jesus you gave us the one who died for all. He lived our life and died our death. You accepted his sacrifice and raised him to new life with you.
Resources for The Week of prayer for Christian unity and throughout the year 2017
By Admin Webmaster 1/24/2017 8:10:33 PMThe traditional period in the northern hemisphere for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is 18-25 January.
Pope meets with survivors of central Italy's earthquakes
By Admin Webmaster 1/24/2017 7:36:29 PMMany of them had lost their houses, livelihoods and friends or family members in the largest earthquakes which reduced parts of many towns and villages to piles of rubble.
Pope Francis: divine motherhood of Mary a gift to us all
By Admin Webmaster 1/4/2017 5:20:28 AMOn the morning of New Year’s Day, in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated Mass to mark the Solemnity of Mary, Most Holy Mother of God.
Some 4 million received by Pope Francis in Vatican in 2016
By Admin Webmaster 12/31/2016 11:22:02 PMAs always, to coincide with the end of the year, the Prefecture of the Papal Household has published a note summing up the participation of the faithful during meetings and audiences...
Pope Francis offers the Pope Emeritus his Christmas greetings
By Admin Webmaster 12/25/2016 12:29:04 AMPope Francis has visited the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, to convey to him his Christmas greetings.
Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from Azerbaijan
By Admin Webmaster 10/3/2016 10:55:26 PMDuring his flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists aboard the the papal plane. He reflected on his trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, marriage and divorce, and homosexuality and gender identity.
'God loves each and every one of us'
By Admin Webmaster 5/5/2016 2:58:30 PMPope Francis says God loves each and every one of us, He is totally extraneous to the “throwaway culture” of today and like the good shepherd he does not want a single person to be lost.
Pope to teens: Love is the Christian identity card
By Admin Webmaster 10/3/2016 10:57:44 PMThe Pope told the thousands of 13 to 16 year olds gathered in St Peter’s Square that “love, was the Christian’s identity card, the only valid “document” identifying us as Christians.
<h3 class=tieudehover>Pope`s homily for Teen Jubilee Mass</h3>");' onmouseout="hidetip();" />Love is nurtured by trust, respect and forgiveness. Love does not happen because we talk about it, but when we live it: it is not a sweet poem to study and memorize, but is a life choice to put into practice! How can we grow in love?
Pope sends video message to Jubilee for Teens event in Rome
By Admin Webmaster 4/24/2016 10:27:33 PMPope Francis sent a video message to the thousands of teenagers gathered in Rome’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday evening to celebrate the Jubilee for Teens.
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Pope Audience: Distinguish between the sin and the sinner
By Admin Webmaster 4/21/2016 10:55:32 AM"All of us are sinners, so many times we fall into the temptation of hypocrisy, believing that we are better than the other”... “through faith in Christ, we too have received the forgiveness of our sins and the new life of grace.”
First meeting of XIV Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops
By Admin Webmaster 4/21/2016 10:51:49 AMPope Francis this week presided over the first meeting of the XIV Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
Christians with hardened hearts are like orphans
By Admin Webmaster 4/20/2016 2:47:04 PMChristians who harden their hearts and refuse to be drawn towards Christ are like orphans, without a father. That was Pope Francis message on Tuesday as he reflected on the daily readings during his homily at Mass in the Vatican’s Santa Marta chapel.
Pope Francis to Centro Astalli: 35 years of service, witness
By Admin Webmaster 4/20/2016 2:47:14 PMEach one of you refugees who knock on our doors has the face of God and is the body of Christ. Your experience of pain and hope reminds us that we are all strangers and pilgrims on this Earth, welcomed by someone with generosity and without any merit.
Mass at Santa Marta - The requisite direction
By Admin Webmaster 4/18/2016 10:42:08 PMThe Pontiff’s conclusion: “Christian life is this simple! Jesus is the door. He leads us on the path and we recognize his voice in the Beatitudes, in the works of mercy and when he teaches us to say ‘Father’”.
Pope ordains 11 on World Day of Prayer for Vocations
By Admin Webmaster 4/18/2016 10:34:56 PMPope Francis celebrated the World Day of Prayer for Vocations by ordaining eleven men to the priesthood at St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday.
Pope Benedict celebrates 89th Birthday
By Admin Webmaster 4/16/2016 4:09:48 PMThe Holy Father Francis, along with all those who accompany him in his visit to Lesbos - entourage and journalists send Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI the most affectionate and cordial greetings on the occasion of his 89th birthday,...
<h3 class=tieudehover>Shedding light on `Centesimus Annus`</h3>");' onmouseout="hidetip();" />The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a symposium this week to mark twenty five years since the publication of Saint John Paul II's social encyclical “ Centesimus Annus".
Be docile to the Holy Spirit - Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta
By Admin Webmaster 4/15/2016 9:51:46 AMA beautiful prayer asking for this docility, the Pope revealed, we may find in the First Book of Samuel, the prayer which the priest Eli suggests to the young Samuel, who during the night heard a voice calling to him: "Speak Lord, your servant is listening."
Pope Francis to Scots College: be courageous, merciful priests
By Admin Webmaster 4/15/2016 9:48:21 AMWe too are living in a time of martyrdom, and in the midst of a culture so often hostile to the Gospel. I urge you to have that same selfless spirit as your predecessors did. Love Jesus above all things!
Pope Francis at general audience: Jesus is the ‘Good doctor’
By Admin Webmaster 4/14/2016 10:11:17 AMGod’s Word is “like a scalpel” which deeply penetrates us in order to “free us from the evil which lurks in our lives.”
Mass at Santa Marta - Two kinds of persecution
By Admin Webmaster 4/13/2016 10:32:39 AMThere are two types of persecution against Christians, the Pope said on Tuesday morning, 12 April, during Mass at Santa Marta. There is the explicit kind — to which he related the martyrs killed at Easter in Pakistan — and the sort of persecution that is “polite, disguised as culture, modernity and progress”...