“With a smile, Pope John Paul I managed to communicate the goodness of the Lord. How beautiful is a church with a happy, serene and smiling face, a church that never closes doors, never hardens hearts, never complains or harbors resentment, does not grow angry or impatient, does not look dour or suffer nostalgia for the past,” Pope Francis has said.

Pauline Marie Jaricot was raised to the order of Blessed in the Eurexpo Exhibition Hall in the French city of Lyon. She was born a wealthy heiress and died poor, having embraced not material but spiritual wealth in the love of God.

Catholic Mission are this year celebrating 200 years of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, and the beatification of its founder, Pauline Jaricot in 2022 with a launch of a new monthly newsletter, Mission Today Digital.

A great and long awaited event for the Salvatorians in Australia and worldwide is scheduled to take place on 15 May 2021 at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
The ceremony of beatification of Fr Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, Founder of the Salvatorians, will be presided over by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Vicar General of His Holiness, Pope Francis

Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in Assisi, a town dear to him and to many Christians worldwide.