Francis – Initiatives and Gestures Category

Posted On 09.06.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

“A way to prepare for the Pope’s visit: his poor arrive before him”

Pope Francis has invited a group of homeless people from Rome to go to Turin to pray before the Holy Shroud, which will be on exhibit in the city until June 24, the Vatican newspaper, “L’Osservatore Romano” confirmed. Pope Francis wanted to offer these pilgrims, without resources, the opportunity to participate in this event.He financed the trip for two buses for those who often live and sleep beneath the columns of Saint Peter’s Square and its surroundings. He did it through the management of the Vatican almoner, Konrad Krajewski, whoRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Holy Year of Mercy – Challenge of covenant culture

VATICAN, Sr. M. Elizabet Parodi. I've just returned from St. Peter's Basilica. It was packed, as it always is when the Holy Father celebrates a liturgy. Today, two years since he started his pontificate, Pope Francis presided over a penitential liturgy. During the homily, in which he spoke about how God never tires of forgiving us, he announced that he had made a decision: with words that seemed to come from the depths of his heart he said that he was proclaiming a 'Holy Year of Mercy' which will beginRead More

Posted On 13.03.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Francis from Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer. Francisco de Buenos Aires [Francis of Buenos Aires] is a documentary that depicts the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio from the point of view of his loved ones and those who know him best.  This film will reach Argentina’s cinemas on the eve of the second anniversary of the election of the Argentinean Cardinal as Pope, and it proposes to make Pope Francis known through his life, his words, and by the testimony of those who know him best, but basically for his management during the firstRead More

Posted On 25.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Pope Francis surprises Sir Lanka and he returns the donation to the Church

VATICAN (ACI). Weeks after Pope Francis’ visit to Sir Lanka on January 13th–15th, this Asian country’s press echoed the Holy Father’s gesture of charity that he quietly carried out toward the neediest in that country, where 40% of the population lives in conditions of poverty.Read More

Posted On 20.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Everything was done with care, dignity and technology: This is how the showers for the “homeless pilgrims” are

VATICAN, aleteia.org. Last Friday, the Office of Papal Charities announced that the installation of the new showers under the Bernini Colonnade was finished. The project of expanding this service to Rome’s homeless population through parishes that joined the initiative was completed in those already existing dining halls where there is a larger concentration of homeless people.Read More

Posted On 17.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

With the first books of that Jubilee audience…at the audience

VATICAN, mda. It was a mistake to have that second expresso at the hotel. Early morning traffic in Rome on Wednesday 4 February, after a night of torrential rain and strong winds, was worse than usual. Stopping my car at a non-functional traffic light, I sent a Whatsapp message to Fr. Simon, who works at the Secretariat of State and had managed to get me an entry for the Pope's weekly audience, promising me a good seat: "I won't be able to make it on time…" He replied: "I needRead More

Posted On 13.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Pope Francis distributes 300 umbrellas to the homeless

VATICAN, aleteia.org. The intermittent rains that have fallen over the Italian capital over the last few days did not go unnoticed by Pope Francis. In the most recent initiative in support of the poor, who circulate around the Vatican and Rome, the Office of Papal Charities distributed 300 umbrellas to the homeless in response to the pontiff’s request.    Read More

Posted On 03.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

The Message of our Holy Father to an Ecclesial Movement of Renewal in a Moment of Grace: The Book of the Audience is Here!

mda. "Distribute the book of the audience”. Maria Paz Leiva, Madrid, wrote those words on her card on “the next practical steps” during the planning meeting of Schoenstatt.org. She can do it, because the Spanish edition is ready, printed and can be distributed. At just the right moment after the Spanish Catholic newsportal, CAMINEO, publicised an announcement on this little book. A thousand extra copies of the Spanish edition will be printed in Argentina so that the delivery there and in its neighbouring countries can happen more quickly. The firstRead More

Posted On 02.02.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Pope also provides haircuts to homeless people

VATICAN, rd. Following on the back of the toilets and showers for homeless people below the columns in St. Peters’, Pope Francis has now surprised everyone with a barber for those who are destitute.Read More

Posted On 15.01.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Seven Evangelization Images in Pope Francis

Victor Codina SJ. The ecclesial and world impact of Pope Francis is not fundamentally attributed to his discourses and talks, which many have not been read completely, but to his symbolic gestures (embracing children, kissing the handicapped, eating with the Vatican workers in the cafeteria, living outside the Apostolic Palace, traveling in a small run-around car…) and some of his images and graphic expressions captured and easily understood by everyone. These phrases, coined amidst a homily or a text, have great evocative and determining power; they are like the modernRead More

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