For April, Pope Francis emphasizes the need to recognize the dignity and worth of women worldwide. He highlights the gap between society’s stated principles of equality and the persistent discrimination women face, such as mandatory dress codes, restricted access to education, limited job opportunities, and in some places, practices like genital mutilation. The Pope’s Worldwide…
In March’s prayer intention video, Pope Francis highlighted the struggles many families face and emphasized the importance of forgiveness. Acknowledging that no family is perfect and that conflicts arise from differences among members, he suggested that forgiveness is the key to healing and rediscovering peace. By giving family members another chance, just as God forgives…
Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of February, and urges Catholics to pray for young men and women to welcome God’s call to the priesthood or religious life. https://youtu.be/_jfn1XYDfro
In The Pope Video for January, the Holy Father warned that today, “we’re experiencing an educational catastrophe,” and underscores, “This is no exaggeration.” 250 million without due to wars, migration, and poverty, the Holy Father decried, some 250 million boys and girls lack education. Education, the Pope underscored, opens the doors to a better future.…
“Let us pray that this upcoming Jubilee may strengthen us in our faith, helping us to recognize the Risen Christ in the midst of our lives, transforming us into pilgrims of Christian hope.” Pope Francis offered that prayer in The Pope Video released on Tuesday to accompany his prayer intention for December, which will see…
In his prayer intention for November, Pope Francis prays that all parents who mourn the loss of s son or daughter might find consolation in their community, and may receive peace of heart from the Spirit of Consolation. “There are no words” that can console a parent who has lost a child, Pope Francis says…
“‘He loved us’, Saint Paul says of Christ (cf. Rom 8:37), in order to make us realize that nothing can ever “separate us” from that love (Rom 8:39)”: Thus begins Pope Francis’ fourth Encyclical, which takes its title from the opening words, Dilexit nos.The Encyclical is dedicated to the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ:…
Pope Francis’ videomessage emphasizes his invitation to each and every Christian “to walk together, taking the path of synodality,” explaining that “we are co-responsible in mission, we participate and we live in the communion of the Church.” Regardless of one’s career or work in life, Pope Francis underlines that the mission is the same, namely…
On Saturday 14 September the Congress of Abbots elected the new Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation, Abbot Jeremias Schröder. We know him well as Abbot President of the Congregation of St. Ottilien. The election took place during the Congress of Abbots being held at Sant’Anselmo in Rome. More than 200 Benedictine abbots from all…
In a video message accompanying his prayer intention for September, Pope Francis prays that “each of us might listen with our hearts to the cry of the earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and climate change, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit.”
