Featured Image: La Stampa – Aurelio Porfiri The past week a meeting was held in the Vatican to address the serious problem of child abuse by the clergy. In the Church the most significant problem is the abuse of adolescents,…
Day: March 1, 2019
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (41)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As we have already said, Shabdrung Rinpoche established himself in Bhutan in 1616 as a political refugee from Tibet, and in the space of a decade manages to unify the entire western region. With him…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD REMOVE REPORTING EXEMPTION FOR PRIESTS IN CONFESSIONAL (CNA) A state senator in California introduced a bill Wednesday which would seek to force priests to violate the sacramental seal of confession in suspected…
FACING THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE – Forgive and be forgiven
FEATURED IMAGE: Catholic News Agency – Carlos Frota 1. Many years ago I had a very animated – even heated – discussion with a friend, also Catholic, about the best way to deal with the historical mistakes of our Church…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/3/003/2019 Pope’s 2019 Lenten Message calls for conversion In his message for Lent, Pope Francis warns that once God’s law is forsaken, the law of the strong over the weak takes over. Pope Francis is calling on the faithful not…
FATHER FERNANDO AZPIROZ, CASA RICCI SOCIAL SERVICES“ – We spread the Gospel by serving” (1)
– Marco Carvalho They work with women at risk, provides education to the orphans of HIV-AIDS, takes care of leprosy and HIV-affected patients and are now starting to look at such aspects as the environment and environmental awareness. Founded 32…
POPE FRANCIS IN MEETING ON PROTECTION OF MINORS – Protect children, eradicate abuse
Featured Image: Tony Gentile / Reuters (Vatican News) “The time has come, then, to work together to eradicate the evil” of the abuse of minors, Pope Francis said, in a speech delivered at the close of the final Mass for…