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First meeting of XIV Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis this week presided over the first meeting of the XIV Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
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Gospel in pictures: Sunday 5th (C) Easter
By Admin Webmaster"... love one another". Jesus invites us to love one another. In our complex world, too. Complex because good and evil are being mixed and mingled together.
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The joy of normality for the Syrian refugees brought to Rome by Pope
By Admin WebmasterHassan said the Pope met the families at the airport and asked about their stories and situations: “we said to them how much we appreciate the efforts he is making for all refugees...
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Daily Meditation: "After Jesus had washed the feet of the disciples..." (Apr 21, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterIn our language we could translate it as “to care about other people's feelings”. Do we care about other people's feelings? Do we listen to them when they speak to us?
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Cardinal Ravasi meets IOC President over upcoming Vatican conference
By Admin WebmasterThe President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, met on Monday with the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach.
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Christians with hardened hearts are like orphans
By Admin WebmasterChristians 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.
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Pope Francis to Centro Astalli: 35 years of service, witness
By Admin WebmasterEach 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.
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Daily Meditation: "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me" (Apr 20, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterAs His Holiness John Paul II has written, "Jesus, overwhelmed by his foreknowledge of the trial waiting for him, alone before God, invokes him with his usual and tender expression of trust: ‘Abbá, Father’".
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Mass at Santa Marta - The requisite direction
By Admin WebmasterThe 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’”.
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Pope Francis meets President of Central African Republic
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis met on Monday with the President of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadéra, recalling the warm welcome he received during his pastoral journey to that country last November.
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Pope ordains 11 on World Day of Prayer for Vocations
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis celebrated the World Day of Prayer for Vocations by ordaining eleven men to the priesthood at St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday.
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Daily Meditation: "I and the Father are one" (Apr 19, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterJesus knows his sheep and his sheep hear his voice. Faith allows us to connect with Jesus through prayer. What else is a prayer but a way to communicate with Jesus Christ, who loves us and takes us to the Father?
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Pope takes 12 Syrian refugees with him on plane back to Rome
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis took three Syrian families and their six children back with him on the plane to Italy when he left the Greek island of Lesbos after his 6-hour visit there.
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Pope Francis, Patr. Bartholomew, ABP Ieronymos sign joint declaration in Lesbos
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis, along with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, released a joint declaration during their visit to the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday.
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Daily Meditation: "The shepherd of the sheep enters by the gate (…)." (Apr 18, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterWe keep mulling over one of the most beautiful and well known images of Jesus' preaching: the Good Shepherd, his sheep and the gate. We all keep in our memory the figure of that good Shepherd we were able to look at, as children.
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Pope Francis arrives in Lesbos
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis has arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos to visit and show solidarity with the many refugees there. The Pope touched down just after 9am Rome time after a flight from the city's Fiumicino airport.
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Pope Benedict celebrates 89th Birthday
By Admin WebmasterThe 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,...
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Daily Meditation: "My sheep hear my voice and I know them; they follow me" (Apr 17, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterFaith enter us through the ears, by listening to he Word of the Lord, and the greater risk we run is our own deafness, to miss the Good Shepherd's voice, because our head is full of noise and other dissonant voices.
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<div class=noidunghover><p class=tieudehover>Shedding light on `Centesimus Annus`</p></div>");' onmouseout="hidetip();">Shedding light on 'Centesimus Annus' By Admin Webmaster 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".
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Pope Francis in Lesbos: island’s only Catholic parish priest ahead of visit
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis’s journey Saturday 16 April to the Greek island of Lesbos is a show of solidarity for migrants “who are people; they have a history, they have dreams, they have names.” That’s according to Fr. Leon Kiskinis, the only Catholic parish priest on the island. He told Vatican Radio's Francesca Sabatinelli that migrants need “to be treated with dignity, as human beings.”
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Pope Francis meets with President of Bolivia
By Admin WebmasterPresident Morales came to Rome to attend a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences marking the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s social encyclical "Centesimus Annus."
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Daily Meditation: "You have the words of eternal life" (Apr 16, 2016)
By Admin WebmasterHis language is too hard for some, too incomprehensible for their mentality, closed to the Lord's saving Word; St. John says, somewhat sadly, that "after this many disciples withdrew and no longer followed Him"...
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FABC OLF "Women and the Impact of Climate Change"
By Admin WebmasterThe increasing poverty caused by these events raises the risk of human trafficking, forced migrations and hunger. We know from data collected that women are the most trafficked, forced to migrate and face poorer health care, higher child mortality, hunger and water and fuel shortages.
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Be docile to the Holy Spirit - Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta
By Admin WebmasterA 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."
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Pope Francis to Scots College: be courageous, merciful priests
By Admin WebmasterWe 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!
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Vatican announces the schedule for Pope’s visit to Lesbos
By Admin WebmasterPope Francis will spend six hours on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, April 16, where – together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymus II – he will spend time with refugees.
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Daily Meditation: "... if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you"
By Admin WebmasterJesus makes three key avowals, such as: that we are to eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood; that if we do not take the Holy Communion we cannot have life; and that this life is the eternal life and the condition for resurrection...
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Closeness and solidarity
By Admin WebmasterI ask you, please, to accompany me with prayers, invoking the light and strength of the Holy Spirit and the motherly intercession of the Virgin Mary.
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Gospel in pictures: Sunday 4th (C) Easter
By Admin WebmasterHe who consciously and repeatedly closes his ears to God's call, is no longer in tune with Jesus and will also lose the joy of being a Christian, to go grazing in other pastures that neither satiate nor give eternal life.
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Pope Francis at general audience: Jesus is the ‘Good doctor’
By Admin WebmasterGod’s Word is “like a scalpel” which deeply penetrates us in order to “free us from the evil which lurks in our lives.”