(Aleteia News) As long as he’s able, Fr. Miguel José Medina Oramas wants to continue praying with his congregation.
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POPE AT ANGELUS – “Forgiveness and mercy help avoid suffering, wars…”
At Sunday’s midday Angelus prayer, Pope Francis reflects on the day’s Gospel of the parable of the unmerciful servant saying if we do not strive to forgive and love, neither we will be forgiven and loved.
SISTER IVANTIC, 107, IS LIVING IN HER SECOND PANDEMIC
(CNS) For Benedictine Sister Vivian Ivantic, these times are not unprecedented. Sister Ivantic was born in 1913, five years before the Spanish flu pandemic that began in 1918. Now, the Chicago woman religious can add the novel coronavirus to the…
Bread for the journey… in hard times
Carlos M. Frota Angelus prayer time. 16th of August. Pope Francis prays for Lebanon, Belarus at Sunday Angelus. Pope Francis appeals for dialogue in negotiations regarding the Nile. In remarks made after the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, Pope…
BELARUSIAN BISHOPS APPEAL FOR BLOCKED ARCHBISHOP’S SAFE RETURN
(CNA) The Catholic bishops of Belarus are calling for prayers that one of their archbishops, who was blocked from re-entering the country last week, be allowed to return home.
POLISH BISHOPS CONCERNED BY RISE IN ACTS OF DESECRATION
(CNA) Poland’s bishops expressed concern Saturday about a rise in acts of desecration. In a statement issued at the end of their plenary assembly Aug. 29, the bishops called for greater respect for religious sensibilities.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – St Lazarus Island (15)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The unsuspected Diogo do Couto also looked at the historical trip to Cebu for a long time, and his account, inserted in his Decada Oitava da Asia, is, many times, coincident with that of the anonymous…
POPE TO EUROPEAN FORUM: “Ecological conversion of economy needed for better future”
The Forum of the European House-Ambrosetti is an annual event that brings together Heads of State and government, representatives of European institutions and business leaders to discuss issues of major importance for the economy and society.
POPE AT ANGELUS – “Christians called to serve God and neighbour as Jesus”
At the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis says “taking up the Cross” means imitating Jesus by expending our life in service to God and neighbour. In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to His disciples about the mystery of His Passion, Death,…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (14)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro An anonymous chronicler, certainly a member of the expedition, says that on his first attempt to reach Cebu, Gonçalo Marramaque had lost himself in that rosary of islands and was forced to return to the Moluccas,…