Francis – Message Category

org. Like a good mother and educator, the Church looks at the essentials, based on the Gospel, that is, mercy, Pope Francis said during the Catequesis on Wednesday, 10 September in St. Peter's Square in Rome. During the Audience, which focused on the Church's maternal aspect, particularly in its education through works of mercy, the Bishop of Rome said that the teachings of the Church are not theoretical, but that the Church is transmitted by example. Francis said that it is not enough to love those who love us. ToRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More
mda. 1914. The Schoenstatt Family all over the world spontaneously connects this year with Schoenstatt's foundation. It took place at the beginning of World War I. "A child of war" Fr Kentenich used to call it. A child of are really dreadful and cruel war, a war that brutally ended the lives of so many young people, including the young men who had surrendered themselves completely to the Mother of God so that the poor and unadorned chapel in the narrow Schoenstatt valley (where the GPS system still fails today,Read More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More
FRANCISCO – VOICES OF THE TIMES, org. Pope Francis' visit to Lampedusa was not a fleeting moment. He continues to call for solidarity towards refugees and immigrants. "In our changing world, the growing phenomenon of human mobility emerges, to use the words of Pope Benedict XVI, as a “sign of the times,” the Holy Father said in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. He recalled "how even the Holy Family of Nazareth experienced initial rejection," experiencing what thousands of refugees experience today. OnceRead More
ROME,org. “I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness," said Pope Francis during this Monday's homily at Santa Marta, where he celebrated Mass with six victims who were abused by priests, three men and three women from the United Kingdom, Germany and Ireland.  He said that for a long time, he has felt "deep and suffering," adding these abuses have been hidden for so long, "camouflaged with a complicity" that he says "cannot be explained."   HeRead More
FRANCIS' MESSAGEs, org. "To speak of the Church is to speak of our mother." Pope Francis dedicated the catechesis at the penultimate General Audience before the summer break, to the Church and its history as a people formed by God.  "The Church," he said, "is not a private association, an NGO." The Pope exhorted the thousands of believers and pilgrims from all over the world who filled St. Peter's Square, to not retreat in on themselves and not fall into the temptation of trying to "bargain with God and resolveRead More