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The Pope Video • Our Families
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Our Families.
The Pope Video • Compassion for the World
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Compassion for the World.
The Pope Video • For Deacons
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: For Deacons.
Recommit to Non-Violence #IamVincent
Violence is sometimes the fruit, sometimes the cause of poverty. Non-violence has deep Christian roots. To say #IamVincent means to commit to a stance that rejects violence, so the poor will not suffer. As Christians committed to a more just and peaceful world we are...
Can You Say No to Pope Francis on September 1?
September 1, Pope Francis asks us to pray for creation. Last year Pope Francis declared September 1st as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Pope Francis states that “The annual World Day of Prayer...
Racism faced by black nuns in America called ‘dangerous memory’
Shannen Dee Williams, assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, addresses the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Atlanta August 10. She spoke about the racism faced by black nuns (Credit: CNS...
Your Best Hope is the Sisters
"If you want to make an impact on maternal and child health around the world, in truly vulnerable communities, your best hope is the sisters," said Tim Bilodeau, former executive director of Medicines for Humanity. Global Sisters Report tells the story which in this...
Pope’s Intention – Sports, a Culture of Encounter
“Sports make it possible to build a culture of encounter among everyone for a world of peace,” says the Holy Father. “I dream of sports as the practice of human dignity, turned into a vehicle of fraternity. Do we exercise together this prayer intention?” On the...
Pope to young people at WYD vigil: “We did not come into the world to ‘vegetate'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP1PgW48A5s Pope Francis arrived at Campus Misericordiae or "Field of Mercy” holding the hands of several youth of the world. Together, they passed through this symbolic Holy Door. Even some accompanied him in the Popemobile to the huge...
Difficult words about mercy
As religious communities struggle to make sense of violence and killings at home and abroad, clergy members deliver difficult words about mercy and ‘the holiness of all.’ Many famvin visitors, especially among the Ladies of Charity USA, recognize Fr. Richard Gielow,...
Daughters of Charity – Witnesses to Slaying of Priest
The BBC website has an interview with one of the Daughters of Charity who was a witness to the slaying of a priest. The men arrived during morning mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a working-class town near Rouen, northwest of Paris, where the 85-year-old parish...
Participating in WYD via a modern miracle
It has been referred to as a "Catholic Woodstock" and a 21st-century version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Whatever the description, the expectation is that more than one million youth will make a pilgrimage to Krakow, Poland June 26-31 for World Youth Day. The...