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Posted On 01.12.2015In Church - Francis - Movements

It is time of mercy

VATICAN, Pontificial Council for the Family/schoenstatt.org • The Pontificial Council for the Family published a collection of texts related to the Synod (not available in the English version), and also on the focus given to family in Pope Francis’ catecheses during the last year. We gladly share what is offered at the website of the Pontificial Council: Review of the Family The family has been at the center of several events in recent days. On Sunday, October 18th, the Pope Francis canonized Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin, the parents ofRead More

Posted On 29.11.2015In Francis - Message

Pope Francis encourages Ugandan youth to be messengers of hope

POPE FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • Before Pope Francis’ meeting with the Ugandan youth at the Kikolo airstrip, one of Uganda’s newspapers, Chimpreports, interviewed young people, asking them what they wanted the Pope to speak to them about. Gilbert Mugabe said that it was his responsibility to attend the meeting because Pope Francis had made time to speak to the youth. Other young people hoped that the Holy Father would speak about peace and unity ahead of the 2016 elections, address corruption, unemployment, drug addiction, abortion, and prostitution.Read More

Posted On 29.11.2015In Francis - Message

Pope Francis in Uganda: “The world looks to Africa as the continent of hope”

POPE FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • Pope Francis arrived in Uganda late on Friday, 27 November. According to Ugandan newspaper, The Observer, the Pontiff received a “rousing welcome from Ugandans who thronged Entebbe International Airport to receive him.” According to the report, he also received a 21-gun salute and a dance group “provided entertainment in performing several cultural dances including the Kiganda dance, Runyege, Kinywarwanda and playing all sorts of local music instruments from makondele, madinda among others.” Pope commends Uganda for receiving refugees Shortly after his arrival,Read More

Posted On 29.11.2015In Francis - Message

Pope Francis condemns urban slums, calls for integrated cities

Pope Francis’ second day in Kenya was taken up with a visit to the Kangemi slum in Nairobi and a meeting with the youth. Even though the newspapers were still full of news about the Pontiff’s visit, his visit to the slum did not receive as much reporting as the Pope’s meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta. In some cases the media missed the point completely. The website of popular Radio Capital FM had a video report on how the Pope’s visit became an opportunity for businesses in Kangemi to makeRead More

Posted On 27.11.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

Kenya “national day of prayer and reflection” for Papal Mass

FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • The Kenyan headlines on 26 November were abuzz with news about the Pope. Every detail of his trip to Kenya has been reported in the mainstream media. The headline in The East African read: “Kenyans brave morning rain for Pope’s Mass.” The front page of Standard Digital carried a large picture of Pope Francis greeting the priests who attended the Papal Mass. The website also has a number that readers can SMS to receive “alerts on Pope Francis’ visit.” Other headlines included: “PopeRead More

Posted On 27.11.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

Kenyan president asks for the Pope’s prayers

POPE FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • Pope Francis landed in Nairobi, Kenya, on 25 November on the first leg of his trip to Africa, a pastoral visit that will also include Uganda and the Central African Republic. Shortly after arriving in Nairobi, Pope Francis met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and other political leaders. Kenyatta: “I ask for your prayers” The Kenyan president, who is himself a Catholic, began by asking the pontiff to pray for him in his aim to fight corruption within his own government. KenyanRead More

Posted On 14.11.2015In Original Shrine

Holy Door of Mercy

From Maria Fischer • An indescribably beautiful and sunny late Autumn day at the Original Shrine at the beginning of November. The trees still show their colourful leaves, others are scattered over the lawn beside the shrine and all around. A picture to illustrate the saying: the many colours of the covenant of love. A single covenant of love here, at this place, in history, borne by grace – and worldwide in many colours, in many languages, cultures, peoples, projects, communities – has taken on life and created a culture. OnRead More

Posted On 13.11.2015In Francis - Message

Pope Francis emphasizes the defence of labour rights

FRANCIS IN ROME • The right to rest, pension, assistance to mothers, among other labour rights, “based on the nature of the human person and on his transcendent dignity” were the key themes of Pope Francis’ address on Saturday, 7 September, in St. Peter’s Square, to 23,000 members of the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS) — on the same day when some 130 participants of the CIEES (Iberian-American Congress for Schoenstatt Executives and Businesspeople) met in Monterrey, Mexico to discuss the topic of living a covenant culture inRead More

Posted On 13.11.2015In Francis - Message

Family is a great training ground for mutual giving and forgiving

FRANCIS IN ROME • In this catechesis at the general audience that Pope Francis held on the first Wednesday of November in St. Peter’s Square, attended by several thousand Catholics and pilgrims from numerous countries, the Holy Father referred to the family as a “training ground for mutual giving and forging,” without which there cannot be lasting love. Francis first of all recalled that the recent Assembly of the Synod of Bishops “reflected in depth on the vocation and the mission of the family in the life of the ChurchRead More

Posted On 11.11.2015In Covenant solidarity with Francis

Looking Back on Pope Francis’ Message to the Schoenstatt Family — Part 5: Church

by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • As we bring to a close this series on Pope Francis’ message to the Schoenstatt Family, we reflect on his encouragement to carry forward Schoenstatt’s mission for the Church, the last of the five areas of apostolic activity that the International Schoenstatt Movement takes forward into a new century. Eucharistic unity – “That they maybe one as we are one” Pope Francis begins by speaking for the need for renewal within the Church, but I have chosen to start where he ends – with the sacraments.Read More

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