Ronaldo Pereira: a life worth living!
Ronaldo Pereira da Silveira was born on August 30th, 1970, in Fortaleza city (Brazil). He was a young man like many others but who had a great desire to change the world. He was studying Business and was taking care of his father’s companies. He was much involved in the Marxist ideology and became a communist […]
Pope Francis received Moyses, the founder of the Shalom Catholic Community
(Vatican City, 15 February 2014) Pope Francis on Friday received in a private audience Moyses de Azevedo Filho, the founder of the Shalom Catholic Community, at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. The Pope met the Shalom Community in 2007 during the Conference of Aparecida, Brazil. In the same year, Pope Benedict XVI gave papal recognition […]
Pope Francis, to receive pardon, we must give pardon
Focusing primarily on the reading from the Gospel according to St Matthew (18:21-35), in which the Lord counsels His disciples to forgive “seventy times seven” times, i.e. always and without stint, the Holy Father addressed the close connection between God’s forgiveness of our sins and our forgiveness of others. Drawing on the Old Testament reading […]
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Letter to a young girl on the privilege of being a woman
My dear young friend, I know that young girls like secrets, and I am going to share one with you. God has chosen your sex for you; He made you to be a girl. You know that girls today are often told by feminists that the Church is “sexist” and has “discriminated” against them from […]
Pope Francis to visit Pompeii, Naples in March
Pope Francis will make a pastoral visit to Naples in the southern Italian region of Campania in March 2015. The Archbishop and pontifical delegate to the Virgin of the Rosary sanctuary in Pompeii, Tommaso Caputo says the Pope will begin his journey with a visit to the Marian shrine on March 21st. The Pope’s apostolic […]
Emmir Nogueira of Shalom visits Sophia
Exchange of gifts during the “culture of encounter” “It’s a joy to be at Sophia today and to testify also through this short visit, to the deep unity which links the Shalom Community and the Focolari Movement. Chiara Lubich is a reference point for us. Hearing about your experiences gives me the impression of seeing here the […]
A journey from Atheism to Catholicism – God found me three times!
Check out this young guy testimony! William had asked to God to prove his existence to him. See how God answered him
Moyses Azevedo: “I wanted to freely give what I have freely received”
Moyses Louro de Azevedo Filho, 55 years old, was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, on the 4th of November. He is the founder and general moderator of Shalom Catholic Community, established in 1982. The community is spread all over Brazil and 15 other countries. His parents always wanted to have a boy but instead they had […]