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Pope: The Christian must "draw close" to those who suffer to restore their dignity

Sep 20, 2017

Following Christ’s example, we must suffer and empathize with the needy, not help them "from afar", because there are those who are dirty, who "do not shower," who "stink." With our "intercessory prayer," with our "work" as Christians, we must be able to help people who suffer, to "return to society", "family life", work; in short: to "everyday life".
Pope’s message to the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sep 20, 2017

The papal letter to Superior General, Sister Barbara Louise Staley on the occasion of the 100th death anniversary of Mother Cabrini, was released by the Vatican on Tuesday.
Pope Francis creates new Pontifical Institute for marriage and family

Sep 20, 2017

The new John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences will replace the original organisation founded in 1981
Vatican holds seminar on young people ahead of 2018 Synod of Bishops

Sep 20, 2017

The Vatican released a statement on Tuesday regarding preparation for the 15th Ordinary Synod of Bishops to take place in October 2018.
Pope Francis retools John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family

Sep 20, 2017

On Tuesday Pope Francis issued a new motu proprio changing the legal status of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, making it a theolog
Pope: Those who rule must pray, it is a sin not to pray for those who rule

Sep 19, 2017

Whoever is in the government should be aware of being "subordinate" to the "people who gave them power, and God, from whom power comes through the people". The ruler who does not pray "closes in his own self-referentiality or in that of his party, in that circle from which he cannot escape; he is a man closed in on himself. "
Press Office Statement on the case of Emanuela Orlandi

Sep 19, 2017

Emanuela Orlandi was a citizen of Vatican City who mysteriously disappeared on 22 June 1983.
Pope to Japanese Bishops: Be the salt and light of society, even going against the trends

Sep 19, 2017

During the pastoral visit of Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of Propaganda Fide, to the Land of the Rising Sun, Pope Francis urges the bishops and the Japanese Church to renew their missionary commitment to society, marked by suicides, divorces, religious formalism, material and spiritual poverty. The request to collaborate with ecclesial movements, perhaps in memory of the controversy with the Neocatechumenal Way.
Pope urges Japanese Bishops to build on the memory of their martyrs

Sep 18, 2017

Pope Francis meeting Japanese Bishops on their Ad Limina visit to the Vatican
Pope: Always, you must always forgive!

Sep 18, 2017

At the Angelus, Pope Francis comments on the parable of the merciful king and the ruthless servant. It is necessary to forgive because "the human being, created in the image of God, is always greater than the evil that he commits." "The heavenly Father is full of love and wants to offer it, but he can not do this if we close our hearts to love for others."