For more than 45 years before that she reached out and ministered to the poorest of the poor, the dying destitute, the abandoned, the orphaned, the sick, - in fact all those who were excluded and lived on the peripheries of a heartless society.
In 2020, Pope Francis has confronted financial scandals in the Vatican and the abuse of minors and vulnerable persons by clergy, which he described as the triple abuse of power, conscience, and sex.
“Kesadanam snehadnam” (gift of hair, gift of love) is a project started by the Catholic Medical College called Amala, in Trichur, South Indian state of Kerala.
One of the prominent images of Pope Francis in 2020 was of him standing alone in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, on the cold, dark evening of March 27, 2020 — at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.
After the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Biden became the second Catholic to lead the United States, the first since John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Recently a high-level human rights team of the UN which included the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, have made public a letter they had written to the Government of India expressing their concern over the “alleged arbitrary detention of human rights defender Stan Swamy”.
A Catholic priest said the reported decline in the number of Filipino couples getting married might be due to a growing fear of a life-long commitment.
To become men of goodwill, you have to peacefully coexist with all the people in the country. That means, no manipulation of natural resources and eradicating the drug trade that ruins young people’s lives.
This Season of Advent, the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences provided a guide for daily, healthy, and reflective living as everyone prepares for Christmas. The Advent Eco Calendar is based on Pope Francis encyclical on the environment, Laudato si'.
