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Yes, Halleluya Festival at WYD Krakow 2016!!

26 April 2016

WYD 2016 will welcome the biggest Brazilian festival of integrated arts. The event will be integrated in the Youth Festival to be held in Krakow (Poland) from 27-29 July. If you are not familiar with Halleluya Festival it is Brazilian’s biggest Catholic festival of integrated arts and certainly the only one of the kind in the […]

Pope Francis’ Letter on the Fifth Centenary of Saint Teresa of Avila’s Birth

30 March 2015

[St. Teresa] asks us to be perseverant, faithful even in the midst of aridity, personal difficulties or the pressing needs that call us. Here is the translation of Pope Francis’ letter to Fr. Saverio Cannistra, Superior General of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, on the occasion of the fifth centenary celebration of St. Teresa of […]

Fr. Cantalamessa’s 5th Lenten Homily: East and West Before the Mystery of Salvation

27 March 2015

Here is the fifth Lenten homily given this year by the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa. * * * With this meditation we conclude our overview of the common faith of East and West, and we conclude it with what concerns us more directly, the problem of salvation: that is, how […]

Kenneth Branagh’s Very Christian Cinderella

20 March 2015

Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry, Word on Fire, and the Rector/President of Mundelein Seminary. He is the creator of the award winning documentary series, “Catholicism” and “Catholicism: The New Evangelization. * * * Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” is the most surprising Hollywood movie of the year so far. I say this […]

Message of Pope Francis for World Youth Day 2015

17 February 2015

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE THIRTIETH WORLD YOUTH DAY 2015 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God (Mt 5: 8) Dear Young Friends, We continue our spiritual pilgrimage toward Krakow, where in July 2016 the next international World Youth Day will be held. As our guide for the […]

Pope Francis in Sri Lanka: encounter, encouragement, prayer

13 January 2015

Pope Francis arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday morning, at the beginning of a week-long visit to Asia that will see him in both Sri Lanka and the Philippines. The Holy Father arrived to pomp and circumstance: traditional dancers, a children’s choir performing an especially composed hymn to mark the visit, as well as […]

Letter to a young girl on the privilege of being a woman

4 January 2015

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 […]

Daughter writes an open letter to her porn-addicted dad

17 December 2014

Dear Dad, I want to let you know first of all that I love you and forgive you for what this has done in my life. I also wanted to let you know exactly what your porn use has done to my life. You may think that this effects only you, or even your and mom’s […]

First Advent homily by papal preacher Fr Cantalamessa

5 December 2014

The preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on Friday gave his first Advent homily in the Redemptoris Mater chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Fr Cantalamessa said he has decided to focus all three of his reflections for the Advent season on the theme of peace, since peace is “the […]

Community Shalom at the III Congress of Ecclesial Communities and New Movements

29 November 2014

This November 20th, at Rome, began the III Congress of Ecclesial Communities and New Movements, organized by the Pontifical Council for Laity, with the theme ‘’ The Joy of the Gospel: a missionary joy.’’ Cardinals, bishops, founders and representatives of more than 100 movements and communities, coming from 40 different countries of the 5 continents, […]

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