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Pope Francis published a letter Sunday to encourage all priests to remain steadfast and prayerful during this time of purification after revelations of abuse by some priests, so that there may be a…
His prayer intention for the month of August invites people to pray that “families, through their life of prayer and love, become ever more clearly schools of true human development.” At the start of each month, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network releases a short video of the pope offering his specific prayer intention at www.thepopevideo.org. Focusing on the church’s mission of evangelization, the pope asked in the short video, “What kind of world do we want to leave for the future?” The answer is a “world with families,” he said, because families are “true schools for the future, spaces of freedom, and centers of humanity.” “Let us care for our families” he said, because of this important role they play. “And let us reserve a special place in our families for individual and communal prayer.” “The Pope Video” was first launched in 2016 to encourage people to join an estimated 50 million Catholics who already had a more formal relationship with the prayer network — better known by its former title, the Apostleship of Prayer.
Marian devotees gathered for the National Fatima Conference on the “Five First Saturday” devotion, which the Blessed Virgin revealed at Fatima.
The head of the Philippine bishops’ conference is mobilizing the parishes to pray for the clergymen who are facing
A military rule on Negros Island could worsen human right violations instead of ensuring the safety of the people, a Catholic bishop has warned.
Prostitution is a horrendous crime that reduces vulnerable women to tortured slaves who are at the mercy of their clients, Pope Francis said.
Manila’s parish churches will offer all their Sunday Masses this month for bishops and priests who are facing sedition complaints.
The Catholic Church’s social action arm has added its voice to calls for a stop to the series of killings in Negros Island.
During the plenary assembly celebrating its golden jubilee, the leadership organization for bishops’ conferences in Africa elected Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo of Ouagadougou as its president.…
Vatican City State will have its own reporting system in place before the end of the year for flagging suspected cases of the abuse of minors and vulnerable people and instances of cover-up or negl…
