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Jesus our Teacher, powerful in words and deeds

Jesus our Teacher, powerful in words and deeds

January 29, 2018 By David Hilt

Pope Francis reflected on Sunday’s Gospel ahead of the Angelus on Sunday. At the Angelus in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel for the fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time. A prophet powerful in word and deed The Holy Father set the day’s Gospel within “the larger story described as the […]

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Transmit the faith with the courage of truth and witness

Transmit the faith with the courage of truth and witness

January 26, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

During his homily at morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta Pope Francis reflected on the how we announce the Gospel message saying that words are empty if they do not reflect real life. At the heart of Pope Francis’ homily on Friday morning in the Casa Santa Marta was a reflection on how to transmit the faith. […]

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Pope presides at ecumenical Vespers service

Pope presides at ecumenical Vespers service

January 25, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

Pope Francis presided at Vespers for the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. As is traditional, Pope Francis presided over an ecumenical Vespers service at the Basilica of Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls for the conclusion of the annual Week of Prayer for […]

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General Audience of 24 January 2018

General Audience of 24 January 2018

January 24, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

In his catechesis at Wednesday’s General Audience, Pope Francis focused on the highlights of his Apostolic Journey to Chile and Peru. Below, please find the English-language summary of Pope Francis’ catechesis at the General Audience for 24 January 2018: Dear brothers and sisters: In my recent Apostolic Journey to Chile and Peru, I had the […]

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Pope invites Christians of all denominations to be instruments of peace

Pope invites Christians of all denominations to be instruments of peace

January 22, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

Amongst those received in audience by Pope Francis at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was the Finnish Ecumenical Delegation. Pope Francis has thanked the Lutheran Catholic Dialogue Commission for Finland for a recently issued ecumenical document. The Pope was receiving in audience the Finnish Ecumenical Delegation as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity drew […]

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Media and Truth Conference to be held in Lourdes

Media and Truth Conference to be held in Lourdes

January 22, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

The Vatican Secretariat for Communication is collaborating with the French “Federation des Media Catholiques” on a two-day communications conference in Lourdes this week. The conference is entitled “Media and Truth.” One of the highlights will be an outdoor Mass at the Lourdes Grotto, celebrated by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Popular perceptions of […]

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‘Seek out where Jesus lives’

‘Seek out where Jesus lives’

January 14, 2018 By Inside the Vatican Staff

Before reciting the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis reflects on the day’s Gospel reading and invites us to go out in search of Jesus to “see where He lives”. Pope Francis prayed the Angelus on Sunday with pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square, reflecting on the day’s readings at Mass and the World Day […]

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Reflections for the Feast of Holy Family

Reflections for the Feast of Holy Family

December 28, 2017 By Inside the Vatican Staff Leave a Comment

On the Feast of the Holy Family we offer all the members of our own families on the altar for God’s blessing. Homily starter anecdote: Grandparents are a treasure: Pope Francis said that as a child, he heard a story of a family with a mother, father, many children and a grandfather. The grandfather, suffering from Parkinson’s […]

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Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil gets Mother Teresa award

Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil gets Mother Teresa award

December 12, 2017 By Inside the Vatican Staff Leave a Comment

Fr Tom Uzhunnalil SDB who was released after 18 months of captivity in Yemen received the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice by Harmony Foundation Mumbai on Sunday. Fr Tom despite having had the opportunity to leave the country chose to serve the elders of the Missionaries of Charity in Yemen. Harmony Foundation  recognized  his compassionate humanity and dedication and commitment to his work in […]

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Pope in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech

Pope in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech

November 28, 2017 By Inside the Vatican Staff

Pope Francis on Tuesday is spending his first full day in Myanmar where he traveled to the country’s capital to meet with the country’s de facto civilian leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. After meeting with her privately, she pronounced an official welcome speech at the Myanmar International Convention Center where the Pope met with authorities, […]

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Pope Francis to Clergy Plenary: prayer key to mission

Pope Francis to Clergy Plenary: prayer key to mission

June 1, 2017 By Inside the Vatican Staff

Pope Francis addressed the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Clergy on Thursday. The Plenary Assembly opened on May 30th, with a packed schedule that included the introduction, consideration, and discussion of several major documents, one of which was the draft text of an Instruction “On some questions regarding the parish, the […]

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“It’s Chaos Made into a Principle  with the Stroke of a Pen”

“It’s Chaos Made into a Principle with the Stroke of a Pen”

June 1, 2016 By Robert Spaemann

“Such a step splits the Church” and “leads her toward schism” Robert Spaemann is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Monaco of Bavaria. He is one of the leading Catholic philosophers and theologians in Germany.   This following is my own translation of the interview on Amoris Laetitia, extensively excerpted, that […]

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Amoris Laetitia Is “Totally Consistent” with Past Teachings

June 1, 2016 By Inside the Vatican Staff

“Does the Pope say the divorced and civilly remarried may now be readmitted to Holy Communion? No.” The Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Philip Egan, has described the Pope’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia as a “magnificent” document, “breathtaking in scope,” and has urged everyone, “clergy and people,” to read and study it. Below we reprint excerpts from […]

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“We Must Respectfully Request  an Authoritative Interpretation”

“We Must Respectfully Request an Authoritative Interpretation”

June 1, 2016 By Bishop Athanasius Schneider

The official response of Bishop Athanasius Schneider to Amoris Laetitia Following are excerpts from the text published on April 24, by His Excellency Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, on the Italian website Corrispondenza Romana. It was the first public statement by a Catholic bishop calling for an […]

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Books, Art & People

Food For Thought

Food For Thought

June 1, 2016 Posted by Mother Martha

With a double article about the history of books in this issue’s “Of Books, Art, and People,” what more appropriate time to suggest a visit to Rome’s Caffè Greco! Here for more than 200 years the great minds of art, literature, and music have been meeting around its tiny, marble-topped tables. The café was opened […]

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From the Domus Santa Marta: The Words of Pope Francis

From the Domus Santa Marta: The Words of Pope Francis

June 1, 2016 Posted by Abigail C. Reimel

Pope Francis made an important point during his Morning Meditation on May 9 when he emphasized the unique impact of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who makes the difference, who sets souls on fire and breathes life into the actions of the Christian. Often the Holy Spirit is either forgotten or […]

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The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love

June 1, 2016 Posted by Alessandra Maria Turco

A message of hope and rebirth released on the 75th anniversary of St. Maximilian Kolbe’s martyrdom at Auschwitz “Faith means deciding to stay with the Lord, to live with Him.” So Father Raffaele Di Muro concludes in his study of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Maximilian Kolbe: The Triumph of Love (Vatican Publishing House, 2016). The book […]

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Pope Francis’ Words to Priests

Pope Francis’ Words to Priests

June 1, 2016 Posted by Giuseppe Merola

“My name is Julius: what do you like best about being Pope?” “What I like, sincerely, is being a parish pastor.” Julius’ question, and Pope Francis’ response, were taken from the pontiff’s dialogue with some members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rome, Sunday, November 15, 2015; from it we can see, as if it […]

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The Book in Europe  in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The Book in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

June 1, 2016 Posted by Lucy Gordan

Two splendid exhibitions this spring concern the history of the book in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and its impact on European and thus world culture: I Libri Che Hanno Fatto l’Europa (The Books That Made Europe) on at Palazzo Corsini in Trastevere, Rome, until July 22 (Via della Lungara 10, Rome, entrance […]

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