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  • Mongolians express pride in hosting Pope Francis

    Sep 15, 2023

    Pope Francis had one of the most unusual popemobile tours of his decade-long pontificate in Mongolia when he entered an ice hockey arena in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, for a Mass with the country’s tiny Catholic community.

  • Holy Father finds his ideal Church in Mongolia

    Sep 15, 2023

    During his Sept 1-4 visit, Francis encountered what he has consistently portrayed as an ideal form of Church — a Church at the peripheries of the world, as he likes to call it, in a country where Catholics are only a tiny minority. But numbers, he told them, don’t matter.

  • Lessons from my 50-year career in adult faith formation

    Sep 08, 2023

    faith formation Beyond burnouts: Moving from profession to vocation 2. Adults desire to appropriate the faith in a way that is consistent with their lived experience, linking faith to the reality of their everyday lives

  • Beyond burnouts: Moving from profession to vocation

    Sep 08, 2023

    In the process of this vocation, every step in it, even painful ones, are nothing but reminders of this call. This way, burnout experiences become reminders of the call.

  • Transforming young lives through football

    Sep 01, 2023

    The Little Flower Football Academy in Kerala, India has transformed many young lives from the coastal belts of Trivandrum and Kanyakumari.

  • California’s new abbey is inspiring young men to join the priesthood

    Sep 01, 2023

    Just outside the City of Angels lies an abbey whose residents are praying to the angels. St Michael’s Abbey, outside of Los Angeles in Orange County, opened in 2021 and is one of the newest abbeys in the world.

  • Basic ecclesial communities in Brazil show signs of revival

    Aug 25, 2023

    Once a powerful force in the Brazilian Church (and in Latin America as a whole), the basic ecclesial communities — known as CEBs in Portuguese and Spanish — saw a continuous decline in the country since the 1990s. Now, with Pope Francis’ support and a fresh interest from the younger generation, thei

  • Awards and titles a responsibility, not a privilege

    Aug 25, 2023

    Our faith is part of who we are. It informs our values, which in turn underpins everything that we do, at home and at work.

  • Four ways the Catholic Church can actually listen more to young people

    Aug 18, 2023

    Pope Francis travelled to Lisbon, Portugal, for his fourth World Youth Day, to listen to the hopes, challenges and questions of over one million young Catholics from every corner of the global Church.

  • Bringing faith into action

    Aug 11, 2023

    From a tender age, Adrian Pereira has been deeply immersed in youth ministries and dedicated to championing social justice causes.