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.
In his talk, Pope Francis reflected on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit celebrated that day.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To begin drafting the working document, the group of experts – including Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB – have met behind closed doors to discuss the continental stage of the Synod on Synodality as a whole and analyse the seven final documents submitted by each of the regional assemblies.