Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons by various world governments, in what appears to be a departure from the Roman Catholic Church’s prior acceptance of the Cold War-era global system of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction.

Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons by various world governments, in what appears to be a departure from the Roman Catholic Church’s prior acceptance of the Cold War-era global system of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction.

The title of Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love contains, in two words, the whole of the message. It connects joy with love like two sides of the same coin, one marked by the seal of the Holy Trinity, “the mystery from which all true love flows”.

“Prospects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament” will bring disarmament experts from around the world together for a symposium on November 10-11, 2017, at the New Synod Hall in the Vatican. The event is sponsored by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Churchgoing parents generally assume that their children will attend with them and eventually join them as their own expression of faith. This is what parents pray for and plan for. But, what do you do when your child does not want to attend church anymore?

Many parents know exactly how this works. The child reaches the age where they start to have their own thoughts about the family weekend. The child wants to sleep in, play sports, or do something other than go to church. What should a parent do when their child does not want to go to church?

The ordinary session of the cardinals and bishops of the dicastery of the saints pronounced itself without objections in favor of the “heroic virtue” of John Paul I.

The Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall’Oglio disappeared while he was in Raqqa, the Syrian city that later became the “capital” of the so-called Islamic state. There, on July 28, 2013, were recorded the latest images and words of the monk. Now the jihadist-Raqqa has fallen, but there is no trace of Paolo, and uncontrolled rumors have begun to circulate around his fate. Father Jacques Murad, together with the brothers and sisters of Dei Mar Musa - the monastic community founded by Father Paolo - live this time of uncertainty and trepidation with the peace of the men and women of Christ.

The truth in a book: on the very evening of his death, the Pontiff was struck by a strong pain in the chest. But it was John Paul I himself who did not want to warn his doctor.

Francis celebrates Mass at Saint Peter’s for the cardinals and bishops deceased during the year, “fellowship with the dead is not merely a desire or an illusion, but a reality”

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On the one hand “the way of life”, which “leads to communion with God”. On the other “the way of death”, which instead “leads far from Him”. It is a “crossroads” that even now, in this world, stands before us and that death makes “definitive”.

Angelus on the Solemnity of All Saints: “Saints are our brothers and sisters who have received the light of God in their hearts and have transmitted it to the world”

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Pope Francis, during his Angelus adress on the Solemnity of All Saints on Wednesday, expressed his deep sorrow following recent terrorist attacks in Somalia, Afghanistan and on Tuesday in New York.

The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest times as an act of Christian charity. “If we had no care for the dead,” Augustine noted, “we would not be in the habit of praying for them.” Yet pre-Christian rites for the deceased retained such a strong hold on the superstitious imagination that a liturgical commemoration was not observed until the early Middle Ages, when monastic communities began to mark an annual day of prayer for the departed members.