(Vatican Radio) Bishops and lay experts attending the Synod on the Family are coming to the end of their first week’s work and moving into their different language discussion groups for the second phase of their meeting. With Pope Francis present at almost every session, a vast variety of family issues have been under the…
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(Vatican Radio) Bishops and lay experts attending the Synod on the Family are coming to the end of their first week’s work and moving into their different language discussion groups for the second phase of their meeting. With Pope Francis present at almost every session, a vast variety of family issues have been under the…
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(Vatican Radio) Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako is expressing concern for the some 120,000 Iraqi refugees who’ve fled Mosul and villages in the Nineveh Plains. In an interview with the Italian periodical Oasis, the Iraqi Patriarch said the children need to go to school and with winter approaching, families need shelter and warmth. Tens of…
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(Vatican Radio) To prevent evil from entering into our hearts, there is an ancient, but very good, practice: the examination of conscience. That was Pope Francis’ message during the morning homily Friday at Santa Marta. The Gospel of the day reminds us that the devil always comes back to us; he never stops tempting man.…
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(Vatican Radio) Prayer is a central part of life at the Synod Assembly, and of the work of the Synod Fathers. On Friday morning, at Terce – the Church’s official praise of God at the “third hour” of the morning – Bishop Arnold Orowae of Wabag, Papua New Guinea, delivered the homily. In his remarks…
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