Young Pakistani man giving his life to God who saved him Daniel Bashir, who coordinates young lay missionaries, is about to enter the seminary. As a child he could not speak and this gave him pain in
Synod: bishops, besides listening, should guide us, says young Pakistani What differentiates young people in Pakistan is education and poverty for the poor don’t go to school. For Christians, discrimi
Vatican asks bioethics for "unconditional respect" for every human being Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Safeguarding the "unconditional respect" due to every human being from the moment of conception, sinc
Pope: God's consolation is a peace stronger than life's trials At the general audience Francis prays for the victims of the earthquake in Indonesia and - recalling Stalin's Holodomor - for the "many c
A prayer a day to invoke with the Rosary the end of the pandemic The event will be centred on 30 shrines in accordance with Pope Francis’s wish. The prayer will be conducted for “the various categorie
Pope calls for less Christmas spending and more closeness to those suffering in Ukraine At the end of today's general audience, Francis called on the faithful to pick “humbler gifts” and devote the sa
Pope: examining one’s conscience can teach us the passwords to a spiritual life In today’s general audience, the pontiff continued his catechesis on discernment, urging the faithful to rediscover this
Pope: Understanding sadness in order to do good At the general audience, Francis continued his catechesis on discernment with a reflection on the feeling of desolation. Appeal for an end to the violen
Pope: As in Emmaus, choose God’s path, not that of the self; the path of yes, not that of ifs Before the Regina Caeli, broadcast from the Vatican library, Pope Francis comments on the episode of the t
Pope: The Resurrection “brings relief from sadness”, a malaise of our time At the general audience, during his Jubilee catechesis, Leo XIV offered his thoughts about the Gospel of the disciples on the
Pope: Lent should be ‘a time of encounter’ with Christ through ‘works of mercy’ Today, Ash Wednesday, Leo XIV spoke about Lent, a time of “true conversion” on the path to Easter, which is “the supreme
Leo XIV: the death and resurrection of Jesus are the foundation of integral ecology If we are not “the custodian of the garden,” we become its “destroyer”, the pope said in his Jubilee catechesis in S