Vatican
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Pope at Regina Coeli: 'God's love opens horizons of hope’
May 20, 2019
Pope Francis on Sunday reflected on God’s love for his people that transforms the hardest of hearts and gives us the strength to overcome prejudice, build bridges and undertake new paths giving life to the dynamism of fraternity.
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Pope calls for humble and free journalism that serves truth and goodness
May 20, 2019
Meeting some 400 journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Italy on May 18, Pope Francis urged for a humble and free journalism.
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Pope Francis: ‘Food banks fight both hunger and waste’
May 20, 2019
In an address to the Food Banks of Europe, Pope Francis decries a wasteful mentality that throws out people and food, and praises efforts to promote solidarity with people in need.
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Holy See calls for more effort in fighting illicit financial flows
May 20, 2019
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, on May 16 addressed a high-level meeting on combatting illicit financial flows (IFFs) and strengthening good practices and assets return.
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Family love: A vocation and a path to holiness, theme for meeting families 2021
May 18, 2019
On the fifth anniversary of Gaudete et exultate, the chosen theme "aims to bring out family love as a vocation and way of holiness, to understand and share the profound and salvific meaning of family relationships in everyday life".
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Pope encourages Society of African Missions in zeal, prays for abducted Priest
May 18, 2019
Pope Francis urges SMA missionaries to persevere in serving victims of war and human trafficking, and assures his prayers for Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli, who was abducted last year in Niger.
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Pope to healthcare workers: Treat the sick as people, not as numbers
May 18, 2019
Pope Francis meets the Italian Catholic Association of Healthcare Workers on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its foundation.
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Vatican's Vesakh message: Promotion of women and girls
May 18, 2019
In a message for the Buddhist festival of Vesakh, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue urges Buddhists and Christians to help uphold and promote the rights and dignity of women.
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Without Holy Spirit, dioceses can become worldly businesses
May 18, 2019
A diocese that cares more about being an organised workplace rather than announcing the good news can fall prey to clericalism and distance itself fro
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Pope urges Lasallians to care for discarded through education
May 17, 2019
Pope Francis invites the Brothers of the Christian Schools to continue in their passion to educate those discarded by society and to promote a “culture of the resurrection” that offers hope for a new life.
Sunday Reflection
Sixth Sunday of Easter: Three Cultures
Today’s first reading presents the solution to the great internal struggle of the Primitive or Earliest Church. Externally, it was the question of whether or not gentile Christians had to practise Jewish customs.
