Church – Francis – Movements Category

VATICAN, vis.This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the Message of the Third Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, dedicated to the “Pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelisation” (5-19 October). The speakers were Cardinals Raymundo Damasceno Assis, archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil, delegate president; Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and president of the Commission for the Message and Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, India.Read More
SPAIN, Manos Unidas/rd. The new Manos Unidas (United Hands) webpage, “24 hours that move the world” is already on-line. This is a global work of sensitivity in solidarity through which, this NGO invites everyone who wishes to participate. From the 30th of September to the 30th of October, those who wish to do so can give light to the world by entering 24horas.manosunidas.org, and through this webpage, interacting with a world map that, for now, is overshadowed by the situations of poverty, hunger and inequality that Manos Unidas has struggledRead More
VATICAN, rv. Speaking about the gifts with which the Lord raises up the Church and makes it more fruitful, during the Catechesis on Wednesday, 1 October 2014, the Bishop of Rome said that among these gifts from God are charisms. He explained that a "charism is much more than a talent or personal quality." It is a "grace, a gift bestowed by God the Father, through the action of the Holy Spirit. And it is a gift which is given to someone not because he is better than others orRead More
ARGENTINA, Roberto Bosco - AICA/mda. Educa, publishing house for the Argentinean Pontifical Catholic University Santa María de los Buenos Aires (UCA), has just printed and put into circulation the book “Achalay mi Virgen! María en el folklore argentino". It was written by Olga Fernández Latour de Botas, a regular member of the Academia Argentina de Letras (Academy of Arts) and the Academia Nacional de la Historia (National Academy of History).Read More
ARGENTINA, Osvaldo Martín. Within the framework of the celebrations of the Feast of the Lord and of the Virgin of the Miracle that is celebrated year after year with great devotion in the city of Salta in the Republic of Argentina, several members of the Schoenstatt Movement were present to honor the Blessed Mother in the figure of the Virgin of the Miracle.Read More
VATICANO, red. Following the call of Pope Francis of reaching out to the peripheries, the twenty couples united in marriage on September 14th in Saint Peter’s Basilica presented the Holy Father with a center for helping youth and families in difficulty.  Read More
VATICAN, net. The International Meeting for the “Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” began on the September 18th with more than 2,000 pastoral workers from seventy countries worldwide participating. The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization organized this conference, which ends on September 20th.Read More
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