My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,The recent meeting held by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, on the Protection of Minors in the Church, commonly known as the sex abuse summit, has not received very favorable coverage in the press.
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Pope Celebrates Memory of Seminarians Martyred in Spanish Civil War
At a time of mounting anti-Christian persecution around the world, Pope Francis celebrated the memory Sunday of nine seminarians killed during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s by revolutionary miners who had occupied the city of Oviedo.
NYPD Remembers Hero Killed In The Line Of Duty In Pope’s Backyard
Proud New York cops often say that “the NYPD never forgets its own.” Lest that come off as mere rhetoric, a group of men and women from the Big Apple were in Rome this week to keep alive the legacy of a brother officer who died over a century ago, and not on the city’s mean streets but in far-away Sicily.
Give Up Gossiping for Lent, Pope Suggests
Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one’s own faults and defects, Pope Francis said.
Author Says Popes Trust Mary Because She’s Most Feared by the Devil
Father Marco Pozza, an Italian priest and author of a new book on the “Hail Mary” containing reflections from Pope Francis, has described papal devotion to Mary – not just Francis’s, but that of all popes – as a reflection of the belief that she’s the figure in Christian tradition most feared by the devil.
Pope Encourages Joint Community Service By Rabbis, Parish Priests
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The fruitful friendship and dialogue between Jews and Christians must go beyond the world of experts and academia, Pope Francis said. “It would be wonderful, for example, if in the same city rabbis and parish priests could work, together with their respective communities, in service to those in […]
Pope to Issue Post-Synod Document on Young People in March
Pope Francis will issue a document on “young people, faith and vocational discernment” five months after the world Synod of Bishops gathered to discuss the topic.
Pope Francis Closes Summit Warning Abusers of the ‘Wrath of God’
Clerical sexual abuse is the work of the devil and Church personnel complicit in abuse become tools of Satan, Pope Francis said on Sunday, closing a Vatican summit on the protection of children.
As Pope’s Abuse Summit Rolls on, Two Cases Make Waves in Argentina
As a Vatican summit on the protection of children from clerical sexual abuse rolls on, in Pope Francis’s native Argentina two cases of priestly sexual misconduct close to him continue to develop.
Survivors Blast Pope’s ‘Reflection Points’ on Abuse as Less Than Zero Tolerance
As part of Pope Francis’s high-stakes summit on clerical sexual abuse this week at the Vatican, during Thursday’s opening session he released a list of 21 “points for reflection”- including a couple that didn’t necessarily sit well with abuse survivors, who say they fall short of the Catholic Church’s pledge of zero tolerance.