(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a video message on Monday evening to Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, where some of football’s best known players – past and present – were facing off in the Interreligious Match for Peace, a charity event he suggested to Inter Milan’s Javier Zanetti earlier this year. The Holy Father apologized to the…
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(Vatican Radio) A Christian’s authority comes from the Holy Spirit, not from human wisdom or degrees in theology, said Pope Francis at morning Mass Tuesday, as he explained that Christian identity is having the Spirit of Christ, not the “spirit of the world”. The people were astonished at Christ’s teaching because he spoke with authority.…
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(Vatican Radio) On the occasion of the Interreligious Match for Peace, the Pontifical Council for Culture has organized a three-day seminar, called Sports at the “Service of Humanity: From the ‘Results-Oriented Culture’ to a ‘Culture of Encounter’. The seminar began on Monday and ends on Wednesday. Listen to the report by Tracey McClure: In a…
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(Vatican Radio) Thousands of sports fans, young and old, came out to Rome’s Olympic Stadium Monday night to watch football greats Roberto Baggio, Javier Zanetti and Diego Armando Maradona, among others, take part in the Interreligious Match for Peace. Players representing the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Shinto religions took to the field for…
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(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Silvano Tomasi is calling on the international community to take concrete steps to stop the ongoing violence and persecution of minorities in northern Iraq, to reestablish a just peace and to protect all vulnerable groups of society. Speaking on Monday at the 22nd Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Archbishop Tomasi…
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