The Pope’s interview with the Echo of Bergamo for the arrival in the city of John XXIII’s body: “the Church’s task is not to change governments, but to bring the logic of the Gospel into the thinking and actions of rulers”
The 72-year-old “white-bearded archbishop” is a tireless promoter of inter-religious dialogue, attentive to both the issue of human rights and the abuse of the blasphemy law.
Papal almoner Krajewski is the most surprising name in the list of new cardinals announced by Pope Francis.
At the Pentecost Mass in St Peter's, the Pope stressed that “Plenty of people promise change, yet no earthly attempt to change reality can ever completely satisfy the human heart” and warned communities against self-preservation”.
At Pentecost, which brings the Easter season to a close, Christians witness the final fulfillment of the revelation of the Word of God begun in the creation of the world and completed in the work of Jesus Christ.
When the Lord told his disciples to go and teach all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit [Matthew 28:19], he conferred on them the power of giving men new life in God.
It is now official. Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a Vatican ceremony Oct. 14. Romero will be elevated to universal veneration at the Vatican ceremony alongside Pope Paul VI.
After a 38-year-wait, it is now official. Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered in 1980 for speaking out against military oppression, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a Vatican ceremony Oct. 14.
Many cases in a Province proliferating with “House Churches”, which are connected to the global evangelical galaxy, along with apocalyptic cults which dream of the collapse of the Chinese system as the historical fulfillment of messianic expectations.
Francis in Santa Marta: in politics as in parishes, a “false unity” is created to slander people. Sometimes the “leaders” suggest people “what to shout”.
He said it and he repeats it: “gossip is a behavior that kills because it destroys people, it destroys their reputation”. Bergoglio in Santa Marta returns to stigmatize the tendency, visible in political and civil life, among the media, as well as in Christian communities (where it is even more dangerous), to besmirch people. And, often, behind these behaviors, there are “leaders” who ardor the masses.
At the general audience, on Wednesday May 16, Pope Francis reaffirms that “the use of violence can never lead to peace”. He recalls the two World Wars and sighs: “We never learn”. And wishes our “Islamic brothers and sisters” for Ramadan.
