During the World Day of the Poor, the displaced and the forgotten, Pope Leo XIV shares a meal with 1,300 guests at the Vatican, urging the Church, especially in Asia, to make compassion a way of life.
During his Sunday Angelus on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Pope Francis turned to the day’s reading, in which Saint Paul describes the Eucharistic celebration.
I am always near to you, as my heart reaches out to all Brazilians. Pope Francis also extended his affection and prayers to the nation as a whole, and not merely to Christians.
Apart from feeding those vulnerable, there are other subtle issues (connected with COVID-19) such as stigma. It is not talked about much, but for example, in South Africa, it is a concern. People are thrown out of their houses because they are suspected of having COVID-19, and there is the fear that they will infect others. Stigma is something that we are also dealing with as a dicastery.
Pope Francis, leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the world, renewed the ecumenical commitment of the Church during the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Ut unum sint.”
Pope Francis prayed for the Catholic faithful in China who were celebrating the feast of the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians and Patroness of China on May 24.
