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St MacKillop can inspire educators to foster hope, says Pope Francis
A Catholic education is an excellent form of evangelisation, Pope Francis said.
“Indeed, education does not consist of filling the head with ideas,” Education is “accompanying and encouraging students on the path of human and spiritual growth, showing them how friendship with the Risen Jesus expands the heart and makes life more humane,” he said.
Pope’s message of hope launched into space to orbit Earth
Once deployed into orbit, the microsatellite is set to transmit papal messages of hope and peace in English, Italian and Spanish that any amateur radio receiver should be able to pick up.
Pope Francis asks Catholics to welcome everyone, create communion
In his talk, Pope Francis reflected on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit celebrated that day.
Promote Christian values, not divisions, on social media, Vatican says
“The problem of polemical and superficial, and thus divisive, communication is particularly worrying when it comes from church leadership: bishops, pastors and prominent lay leaders,” the document said.
Pray at Pentecost for courage to evangelise, says Pope Francis
Speaking Wednesday 24 May, Pope Francis used the example of St Andrew Kim Taegon, the 19th-century Korean martyr in continuing his weekly general audience talks about the “zeal” to evangelise.
Abuse survivors cycle to Rome, deliver ‘broken heart,’ ask for action
“The victims of abuse and violence in the Archdiocese of Munich turn to you, Holy Father, with open and at the same time wounded hearts,” the group said in a letter hand delivered to the Holy Father at the end of his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square, Wednesday May 17.
From the Bush to the Vatican: faith, spirituality and reconciliation
Dr Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann trained in a Catholic mission school in her rural community near Darwin and went on to become the first fully qualified Aboriginal teacher in the Northern Territory.
Draft Working Document for the Synod on Synodality approved
The Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod has approved the Instrumentum Laboris’ (working document) for the first session of the Synod on Synodality, as well as the methodology of the Assembly.
Jesus is the best life coach, Pope Francis tells Hungarian youths
Everyone has a talent, the Holy Father has last weekend told more than 10,000 young people gathered at Budapest Stadium, Hungary, but using it just to earn money or have fun will not bring happiness.
People wounded in life should find welcome in the church, says Pope Francis
In his main address, Pope Francis spoke about the day’s Gospel reading, John 20:19-31, which recounts the story of St Thomas doubting the other disciples’ claim that they had seen the risen Lord.
