Sunday, November 26, is the Solemnity of Christ the King. Mass Readings: Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17; Psalms 23:1-6; 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28; Matthew 25:31-46.

This Sunday is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. That might sound a little old-fashioned and triumphalist. It might seem that, by proclaiming Christ as King, Catholics want to rule the world, stepping over the benighted masses who have no relationship with the great King.

Christians are the target of genocide in the Middle East, where they face enslavement, rape, murder, and violence under the rule of Islamic extremists. When trying to flee, they face continuing threats to their lives in Europe’s migrant camps.

In just over 10 years, the Christian populations in Iraq and Syria have been decimated, according to research compiled in the book “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East”.

His Majesty King Abdullah’s recent meeting with a delegation representing the World Council of Churches was an occasion to emphasise Jordan’s commitment, under the Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem’s Islamic and Christian holy sites, to preserve the holy shrines and defend the property of its churches at all international forums.

The Fatima seer gives so many clear reasons for us to see why Our Lady insisted on the daily Rosary for all.

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Now that we’ve celebrated 100 years of Fatima, do you want some further explanations why we should pray the Rosary daily as Our Lady directed the children and us to do?

Servant of God Sister Lucia can tell us. She gives a clear explanation in her book “Calls” From the Message of Fatima. First, she begins by again reminding that this call from Our Lady came the first time at her first apparition on May 13, 1917.

On the occasion of the award ceremony of the Foundation dedicated to the Pope Emeritus, the Orthodox musician will perform the Pater Noster on Benedict XVI’s piano.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received the composer Arvo Pärt and the other two winners of the 2017 Ratzinger Prize, the German Lutheran theologian Theodor Dieter and the German Catholic theologian and priest Karl-Heinz Menke, to whom Pope Francis will hand over the Prize along with Pärt, an Estonian and Orthodox composer.

At Mass for the first World Day of the Poor, Francis warns against “the great sin of indifference: for it is an evangelical duty to take care of those who suffer”;

"In the poor, Jesus knocks on the doors of our heart, thirsting for our love. When we overcome our indifference and - Francis says - those who store up treasures for themselves, do not grow rich in the sight of God". And he adds, "for all of us are beggars when it comes to what is essential: God’s love, which gives meaning to our lives and a life without end".

Interview with the “ex-clandestine” Bishop of Lanzhou. Until now unrecognized by the Chinese authorities, he has taken office with legitimacy.

Message to the international meeting for the implementation of the Paris Agreement abandoned by the United States: avoid denial, combat climate-change.

In a moving ceremony held at the Free Evangelical Church in Amman’s Khalda neighbourhood on November 14, members of evangelical churches in Palestine and Jordan announced the creation of a unified coordinating alliance, made up of: the Council of Local Evangelical Churches in The Holy Land, the Council of Evangelical Churches of Galilee and the Jordan Evangelical Council.

John Paul I's niece comments on the decree of the Causes of Saints and recounts memories and private details of her relationship with the Pope whom she describes as “a second father”. “He was a man of culture and hope, not a poor man who died under the weight of responsibility”.

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