Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
Papa Francesco e Don Bosco - By Alejandro Leon. “I started attending seminary in 1956. In August of 1957 I came down with pneumonia. I almost died. They operated on my lung. Father Pozzoli [a Salesian] came to visit me during my illness. In my second year of seminary I had begun to be [...]
Interview with Mikayel Minasyan, Armenia’s Ambassador to the Holy See. Scholars estimate the number of Armenians who died in 1915 at about 1.5 million. Deportation was the cause of many of the deaths — men, women and children sent to an unknown destination were abandoned to their own strength and left to die of hunger, [...]
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra. I believe that it is necessary to make a clarification of terms, so as to be able to indicate with conceptual rigor what precisely is the theme of my reflection. Faith: by this I mean the fedes quae concerning marriage. It is synonymous with the “Gospel of marriage,” both in the [...]
This year as last, as we head into the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we are gathered to celebrate the penitential liturgy. We are united with so many Christians who, in every part of the world, have accepted the invitation to live this moment as a sign of the goodness of the Lord. The Sacrament of Reconciliation, [...]
Pope Francis Becomes A Sommelier So Can You Pope Francis received a delegation of some 180 Italian wine producers, vintners, sommeliers (wine stewards) and wine writers on January 21 at his Wednesday morning general audience in Vatican City’s Palazzo Nervi. The meeting was organized by Franco Ricci, head of the Fondazione Italiana Sommelier (The [...]
From the Domus Santa Marta: the words of Pope Francis In these homilies, Pope Francis encourages us to renew our faith. He encourages us to go out to be “workers for the Kingdom.” He encourages us to go on a search for Christ, to have “restless hearts” until we find Him. Each of us [...]
MONDAY 26 People display signs in Los Angeles at a demonstartion before the National Human Traffickin Awareness Day last month. Just as Mary gave the world Jesus, women hand on the faith, pope says Why is it, Pope Francis asked today, that so many women are the ones who hand down the faith generation [...]
Archbishop Bruno Musaro. New Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt appointed Pope Francis has named 66-year-old Italian Archbishop Bruno Musarò to be the new Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and Delegate to the League of Arab States. Archbishop Musarò was formerly the Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba from August 2011 to February 5, 2015. He takes over his [...]
Cinzia Oliva, a textile restorer from Turin, Italy, who specializes in mummy wrappings, puts the finishing touches on restoring the mummy Ny-Maat-Re in the Vatican's Museum's collections in this endated photo. The art treasures of the Vatican — from all ages and of many cultures — are to be found in 10 pontifical museums, [...]
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, just after being made cardinal at the consistory of February 21, 2001, 14 years ago. There is, in Buenos Aires, a “papal tour” bus that takes visitors around places linked to the life of Jorge Bergoglio, from those of his youth—his baptismal church, family home, and schools—to those of [...]