by Javier F. Chento | Apr 18, 2016 | News, Pope
This weekend, Pope Francis visited the refugee camp in Lesbos (Greece). With him were the leaders of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, and Jerome II, Archbishop of Athens. The news has not gone unnoticed in the European media, even if many...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 12, 2016 | Church, News, Pope
The third video of “The Pope Video” series, an initiative promoted by the Vatican, was released Thursday, March 10. In it, the Holy Father explains his intentions for universal prayer and evangelization. Every month we will see a new two-minute video from...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Pope
Tweetable. It means that the things you say can capture the imagination in 140 characters or less! Certainly, Pope Francis qualifies. MillenialJournal, which characterizes itself as “young Catholics — ancient faith — new century,” has published...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 27, 2016 | Church, Formation, Pope
Photo By Christoph Wagener – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26614990 Pope Francis addressed the participants of a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical ‘Deus Caritas Est.’ The...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 13, 2016 | News, Pope
“I desire mercy, and not sacrifice” (Mt 9:13). The works of mercy on the road of the Jubilee 1. Mary, the image of a Church which evangelizes because she is evangelized In the Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, I asked that “the season of Lent in...
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 6, 2016 | Church, News, Pope
The second video of “The Pope Video” series, an initiative promoted by the Vatican, was released Friday, February 5. In it, the Holy Father explains his intentions for universal prayer and evangelization. Every month we will see a new two-minute video from...