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The Pope Video • Catholics in China
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Catholics in China.
Pope Francis Publishes Apostolic Exhortation: “Beloved Amazon”
Pope Francis published the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, “Beloved Amazon” … this document is the fruit of the Synod on the Amazon.
The Pope Video • Hear the Cries of Migrants
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Hear the Cries of Migrants.
“The Pope Video” (3): For children and families in difficulty
The third video of "The Pope Video" series, an initiative promoted by the Vatican, was released Thursday, March 10. In it, the Holy Father explains his intentions for universal prayer and evangelization. Every month we will see a new two-minute video from Pope Francis...
Down the Tubes. #IamVincent #WeAretheChurch
Down the tubes. Down the drain. Commentaries by many say that is the future of the Church. But Vincentians know better. Vincentians are the Church. And the Church is growing and healthy. In an article on HuffPost filled with both hope and desperation, Kevin Wright and...
The Tweetable Pope
Tweetable. It means that the things you say can capture the imagination in 140 characters or less! Certainly, Pope Francis qualifies. MillenialJournal, which characterizes itself as "young Catholics -- ancient faith -- new century," has published an interview with...
Invitation to a mini-retreat with the Pope
Ten questions for the Vincentian Family...and for the Pope and his Curia. I recently saw notice that Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia will spend March 6 through March 10 at the Casa Divin Maestro in Ariccia, Italy. But what really struck me was the set of...
Francis: God is Love
Photo By Christoph Wagener - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26614990 Pope Francis addressed the participants of a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical ‘Deus Caritas Est.’ The...
Social Justice in the Bible
Given that Pope Francis’ words and actions draw people’s attention to issues of social justice this reposting of an article by Dominik Markl SJ titled
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for Lent 2016
“I desire mercy, and not sacrifice” (Mt 9:13). The works of mercy on the road of the Jubilee 1. Mary, the image of a Church which evangelizes because she is evangelized In the Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, I asked that “the season of Lent in...
“The Pope Video” (2): Care for Creation (February 2016)
The second video of "The Pope Video" series, an initiative promoted by the Vatican, was released Friday, February 5. In it, the Holy Father explains his intentions for universal prayer and evangelization. Every month we will see a new two-minute video from Pope...
Fridays of Mercy
The Pope begins his "Fridays of mercy" - Vincent told us to love God with the sweat of our brows and the strength of our arms. St. Francis believed that we should preach always and even use words if we must. Pope Francis certainly continues his preaching by example...