(Vatican Radio) Beautiful homilies are useless if you are not close to the people, if you do not suffer with the people and do not give hope, they are vanity: This was Pope Francis’ reflection Tuesday morning during Mass in Santa Marta, the day on which the Church remembers the Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian,…
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(Vatican Radio) At a briefing today, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, announced details of Pope Francis’ first Apostolic Voyage in Europe. Pope Francis’ journey to Albania will be his fourth international voyage, and the first to European country outside of Italy. Listen to Christopher Wells’ report: Father Lombardi said…
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(Vatican Radio) At a briefing today, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, announced details of Pope Francis’ first Apostolic Voyage in Europe. Pope Francis’ journey to Albania will be his fourth international voyage, and the first to European country outside of Italy. Listen to Christopher Wells’ report: Father Lombardi said…
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(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga opened a High Level Caritas meeting for the crises in the Middle East with an impassioned call for peace. Speaking on Monday at the start of the Rome meeting scheduled to run from 15 to 17 September, Cardinal Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis, spoke of the tragedy of millions…
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(Vatican Radio) A conference on Social Finance takes place in Rome, Monday, focusing on Impact Investing for the poor. Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace – who is in Poland to participate in another meeting – has sent a message to participants of the event organized by the Human…
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