Habemus Papam! – Bishop’s Message

Habemus Papam! We have a new Pope! What great news! This past week, we mourned as God called Pope Francis back to heaven, but now God has sent us another new Pope! He is the first Pope from the United States and the first Augustinian Pope. This joy is not merely of the heart or of having a new Pope within the structure of the Church; rather, it is a spiritual, even theological, joy. Every Pope is Christโ€™s vicar on earthโ€”the Father of the Catholic Church, the Father of fathers, and the Servant of all servants.

A STATE IN COLLAPSE – Missionaries Alleviate Haiti’s Difficulties

One year after the installation of the Presidential Transitional Council (CTP), Father Marc-Henry Simรฉon, spokesperson for the Haitian Episcopal Conference, makes a rather somber assessment of the โ€˜achievementsโ€™ of this body, which was supposed to free the country from the insecurity caused by the criminal gangs that have plagued the country for decades. โ€œThe state is progressively collapsing, leaving the door open to armed gangs that are expanding their area of โ€‹โ€‹control, especially in the capital,โ€ he says.

๐‚๐š๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‚๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก’๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญo ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ – ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ๐ž?

๐€ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž. ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‚๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก, ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ’ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐๐ž. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ “๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ๐ž” ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ก๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ž “๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ๐ž,” ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  “๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ,” ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐.

THE POWER OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES – Increased Conversions in the Malaysian World

In Malaysia, the Gospel has been attracting more and more young people and adults, who, after reading the sacred texts, seek baptism, thus embracing Christianity. Several official statements from the local Church have informed us that the Catholic community in Malaysia received โ€“ during the Easter Vigil of 2025 aloneโ€“ more than 2,000 new faithful: 1,047 in Peninsular Malaysia and an equivalent number in the Malaysian provinces of Borneo.

THE POPE FOR ALL AND THE POPE OF THE POOR – The Popeโ€™s Presence: My Memories of Pope Francis

I first encountered Father Jorge Bergoglio during my novitiate in 1981, in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. Our Dehonian novitiate was located near the Colegio Mรกximo, where young Jesuits on formation, studied theology. At that time, Father Bergoglio was the rector of the institution. He had previously served as the novice master from 1972 to 1973, and after six years as provincial superior, he returned as formator of young Jesuits. Father Jorge Bergoglio helped young men grow in Ignatian spirituality as a mentor, guiding them in discerning God’s will, fostering solidarity with the poor, embracing simplicity, the life of poverty and obedience to Godโ€™s will.

GREAT HOME OF CHRIST FAMILY – Seventeen Years Among the Most Disadvantaged

A grand celebration marked the seventeenth anniversary of the โ€˜Great Home of Christ Familyโ€™ in Buenos Aires, an institution founded when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was Archbishop of the city. This happened in 2008, at a time when the presence of priests in the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the so-called Villas Miseria, had already been spreading for some time. Known as curas villeros, these clergymen actively participate in the lives of the poorest, caring first-hand for the great needs they face and sharing this commitment with others, thus becoming the center of communities that were born and multiplied.

SHISHI TO BOTAN โ€“ LION AND PEONIES – The Story of the โ€œHidden Christiansโ€ in Comics

Read by an increasingly broad and diverse audience around the world, Japanese manga has long held an enormous fascination among young and old alike. In addition to the unusual superhero adventures, this peculiar type of comic book, conceived in its own format, also portrays stories of ordinary men and women. In this way, countless episodes of Japanese history have been transmitted to school-age children; and now, the trend seems to extend to a type of character who, even under fierce persecution, remained firm in their faith in Christ: we are talking about the so-called Japanese โ€œhidden Christiansโ€. A phenomenon that originated in the 17th century, when Christianity โ€“ introduced with immense success in the Japanese archipelago a century earlier, thanks to the continued work of missionaries from the Portuguese Patronage of the East โ€“ was expressly prohibited, with all missionaries present there being ordered to be expelled. Many of them, for refusing this order, would later be martyred, and, even under torture, they never renounced their faith.

ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS – Leaders of the Churches In Syria Demands Immediate End to Atrocious Acts

Patriarchs of three indigenous Churches historically rooted in Syria signed a joint appeal to stop the โ€œhorrible massacresโ€ perpetrated in recent days in several provinces of the country by jihadist militias, with a particularly serious impact on the communities of the Alawite minority. They denounce an โ€œescalation of violence that has led to attacks against innocent civilians, including women and children.โ€

7th EDITION OF THE โ€˜ASIAN MISSIONโ€™ IN THE PHILIPPINES – Prepared for the Mission, Prepared for Peace

The seventh edition of the โ€˜Asian Missionโ€™ initiative, which this year had as its motto โ€œprepared for the mission; prepared for peaceโ€ was comemorated last February. This Catholic event brought together 50 participants, including eight young people from Japan, five from South Korea (more specifically from the diocese of Daejon), and the rest from the Philippine parishes of Nampicuan, San Fabian and Malasiqui, with 30 of these young people being part of the group โ€˜Servants Missionary Youthโ€™.

ARCHDIOCESES OF JAKARTA AND MAUMERE – Jubiliary Initiatives in the Indonesian Archipelago

The Holy Year celebrations of the Archdiocese of Jakarta coincide with the launching of the โ€œKabar Baikโ€ (โ€œGood Newsโ€) initiative. The newly created Catholic platform is dedicated to evangelization and the dissemination of religious content in the Bahasa language. The โ€œKabar Baikโ€ platform aims in particular to inspire Catholic journalists to make the main messages of Pope Francisโ€™ magisterium accessible and disseminated to a wider audience.