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Cardinal Collins: Families need to be strong

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

Provinces in Canada on Monday celebrated “Family Day,” a day for people to take time for their loved ones and emphasise the importance of family values. Speaking in Rome, Canada’s newest Cardinal, Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins talked to us about the importance of the family in the modern world. “Our families are the most basic communities, and yet we see… many struggles in families. I think that very often, some of the things that Paul VI prophesied in Humanae vitae have come to pass.

Pope: Homily at Santa Sabina

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

Pope Benedict XVI led a procession on Wednesday afternoon, from the church of St. Anselm to the Church of St. Sabina on the Aventine hill in Rome, where he celebrated Mass and distributed ashes to the faithful at the beginning of Lent. Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father's homily. ******************************* Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and penance on which we begin a new journey towards the Easter of Resurrection, the journey of Lent.

Missio Metropolis: Liverpool bound...

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

A parish priest from the Liverpool Archdiocese, Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, who’s currently serving at Saint Joseph’s Blundellsands speaks to us of his diocese being among the eleven metropolitan diocese across Europe launching a major evangelisation drive during Lent An initiative which is part of a continent-wide pilot scheme promoted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation in preparation for the scheduled October Synod of Bishops on the new evangelisation , to be held in Rome.

Pope: Lent a time for mature decisions

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

The forty days of Lent, reflecting Christ’s forty days in the desert, were the focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s catechesis this Ash Wednesday. Speaking to pilgrims in the Paul VI audience hall, the Holy Father reflected on the condition of the pilgrim Church in the "desert" of the world and history. Speaking in Italian, the Pope said the period of 40 days “does not represent an exact chronological time, divided by the sum of the days.

Pope: the Basilica of Santa Sabina

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

In the evening of Wednesday 22 nd of February Pope Benedict XVI leads the traditional Ash Wednesday procession on Rome's Aventine Hill. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor to the See of Peter , Blessed John Paul II who revived this practice in 1979 because, as he himself said on that occasion, the Lenten season cannot go by unnoticed. The Basilica of Santa Sabina which goes back to the fifth century may be steeped in history but it's also provided a venue for prayer down the centuries , even that of Saint Dominic .

Pope: Conquering our spiritual desert

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

Below Pope Benedict XVI’s catechesis to English speaking pilgrims present at the general audience this Wednesday: Dear Brothers and Sisters, today the Church celebrates Ash Wednesday, the beginning of her Lenten journey towards Easter. The entire Christian community is invited to live this period of forty days as a pilgrimage of repentance, conversion and renewal. In the Bible, the number forty is rich in symbolism. It recalls Israel’s journey in the desert, a time of expectation, purification and closeness to the Lord, but also a time of temptation and testing.

Follow the Pope on Twitter for Lent

Submitted on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:00pm

Some like to give up a favourite food for Lent. Others choose to follow a bible study course. Or commit to helping those less fortunate than themselves. But in our increasingly secular societies, many young people no longer keep the Lenten season in any special way – that’s why the Pontifical Council for Social Communications has come up with a new idea to focus hearts and minds on the challenges contained in Pope Benedict’s Lenten message for 2012..

In Europe the new frontiers of evangelization

Submitted on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:00pm

It is no longer only Africa and other distant lands to be evangelized that
are on the horizon. Today Comboni's traditional ideal missionary, summed up in
his motto “Saving Africa with Africa”, must reckon with the new reality of
secularization that is rapidly invading regions and territories of ancient
Christian faith. In this perspective, from 7 to 17 February, the Combonian
European Assembly for Missionary Animation and Evangelization was held in
Pesaro, Italy. About 50
missionaries

Card. Bertone: Education for the good of Peru

Submitted on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:00pm

Given below is the text of a communiqué released this morning by the Holy See Press Office concerning the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. This morning, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., met with Marcial Rubio Correa, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The secretary of State made reference to the assiduous and generous commitment shown by various members of the university in the formation of students, and the broad range of disciplines the PUCP offers to young people. Cardinal Bertone then informed Mr.

Twal : Our Lenten journey to Jerusalem

Submitted on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:00pm

This Wednesday, the Universal Church enters the liturgical period of Lent; the 40 days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving, that lead us towards Easter. In his message this year, Pope Benedict called believers to show fraternal concern for one another. His invitation is echoed by the Patriarch of the Holy Land Faud Twal, who asks us not to forget the families struggling to keep a Christian presence alive in the land of Our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection: He says that in the Holy Land “the situation is still really not encouraging”.

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