Church – Francis – Movements Category

VATICAN, aciprensa. The Paraguayan couple, Víctor and Stella Domínguez, traveled to Rome from January 22nd-24th to participate in the International Congress of Family and Life Movements, Groups and Associations with the theme “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and in the Contemporary World,” where they shared their experience in the pastoral for divorced people in a new relationship.Read More
ITALY, rd/mda. On Tuesday, January 27th, at 4:00 p.m., in the Frascati Cathedral, Bishop D. Faffaello Martinelli conducted the official opening of the cause of beatification and canonization of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The ceremony could be followed online.  Read More
TOGETHER FOR EUROPE, Melanie and Ulrich Grauert/mda. Loppiano, near Florence, is the first of many other settlements of the Focolare Movement in the world. The Movement runs a number of businesses and a centre for encounter there, offers training courses for youth, families, priests and religious, as well as for those who want to join the Focolare communities, who follow a two-year basic training. It is here that an economic congress will take place in March 2015. It all began in 1999 when Pope John Paul II had the ideaRead More
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
CHILE, mda. It is “an invitation to draw closer in a spirit of faith -- both personally and as a community -- to a text that adds a climatic and providential message to the jubilee celebrations of the centenary of the Covenant of Love” (Prologue). It is a small book with 56 pages, which is coming onto the market in five languages in these days. It contains the message of Pope Franics to the Schoenstatt Movement “to an ecclesial movement of renewal during a moment of grace, both in theRead More

Posted On 10.01.2015In Francis - Message

Room 201

Fr. Hugo Tagle. Room 201: This is the room number for Pope Francis in the Saint Martha House. Perhaps we have become accustomed to his preference for an austere lifestyle in the guesthouse. But his bright ideas, his deviating from protocol, and his sharp-as-a knife phrases surprise us and positively bewilder us daily. With Pope Francis began, undoubtedly, an ecclesial path of no return. Since his election as Successor to Peter, the Church and her relationship with the world will never be the same.Read More
mda. Pope Francis surprises us and upends many of our secure outlooks on life. Stereotypical images of our enemies, about which we were so certain, such as, “the media who are always against the church and the Pope” collapse, while many “very” Catholic media and commentators, which liked to label themselves as “faithful to the Pope”, suddenly find that they are having difficulties with him. There are quite a number of Christian journalists and opinion makers who sow suspicion and accuse the Pope of creating confusion among the Faithful. OnRead More
FRANCIS - MESSAGE AND MESSENGER. Pope Francis decided to celebrate his 78th birthday with a gesture of love and solidarity with the poorest of Rome. The Argentinean Pontiff had 400 sleeping bags distributed among the homeless of the city to help them cope with the harsh Roman winter’s temperatures.Read More
ADVENT WITH POPE FRANCIS, org. We celebrate the fourth Advent Sunday. Christmas is close. As in every year we hear the call: Let us go out as pilgrim to meet the Lord! Joy for the poor, a feast for the people – let us prepare the way of the Lord! In his Jubilee message at the audience on 25 October our Holy Father, Pope Francis, presented an Advent inspiration … an Advent inspiration towards this Christmas and into Schoenstatt’s second century. Let us allow ourselves to be moved and challengedRead More
PRAY FOR ME, mda. On 17 December Pope Francis turns 78 – a few days after the 45th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, which took place on the Third Sunday of Advent. What do you give to a Pope for his birthday, which he described as “a completely normal day”, a Pope who raffles his presents? You carry out his requests. Those who pay attention to what he says, or those who only took in the words he addressed to the Schoenstatt Movement during the audience on 25Read More