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(Vatican Radio) Caritas Internationalis and the Lutheran World Federation’s charitable arm are jointly preparing a key event in Sweden’s Malmö arena as part of the October 31st anniversary of the Reformation.Pope Francis and Lutheran leaders are together hosting a day of ecumenical events in Sweden to kick off the 500th anniversary commemorations of the Reformation and to celebrate the progress that has been made in Catholic-Lutheran relations over the past half century.Following a joint prayer liturgy in Lund cathedral, the pope and the Lutheran leaders will travel to Malmö for a celebration of the witness that Catholics and Lutherans are giving together, working for justice and peace in countries around the world.To find out more about this unprecedented initiative, Philippa Hitchen spoke to the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis Michel Roy…Listen: Roy says the initiative originates with the Catholic and Lutheran Churches, which want ...
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Church in Sweden is hoping Pope Francis will bring a message of faith, hope and unity to a very secular society. The Pope arrives in the southern city of Malmö on Monday and travels to nearby Lund to take part in an ecumenical prayer service with leaders of the Lutheran World Federation in the cathedral there.Later in the afternoon, he returns to Malmö for an event in the main sports arena jointly organised by Caritas Internationalis and the Lutheran World Service. The theme of the event ‘Together in Hope’ is focused on common witness and service to those most in need.On Tuesday, the Pope will celebrate Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints day in Malmö before returning to Rome in the afternoon.Oblate Father Fredrik Emanuelson is episcopal vicar for evangelization in Stockholm, the only Catholic diocese in the country and has been helping to coordinate this papal visit to Sweden. He talked to Philippa Hitchen about the country...
(Vatican Radio) As Pope Francis makes his 17th Apostolic visit to Sweden for a joint commemoration of the Reformation together with leaders of the Lutheran World Federation, the President of the Federation says he reciprocates the Pope's feeling of closeness between the two Churches.Listen to Philippa Hitchen’s interview with Bishop Munib Younan, President of the Lutheran World Federation Bishop Munib Younan, speaking about his own personal hopes for the visit notes, “we have behind us fifty years of deep dialogue between the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church and this dialogue is built on issues and this is the reason we sighed the joint declaration…” He also says this commemoration consolidates that closeness which shows “we are brothers and sisters in Christ”.He stresses that, “the division of the past must not determine our future today” and like the Pope, he emphasizes the urgency of Christian unity because of th...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has arrived in Sweden for a two-day apostolic journey where, together with the heads of the Lutheran World Federation he will jointly preside at an ecumenical prayer service in Lund cathedral, followed by a public witness event in the nearby city of Malmö.On Tuesday morning, All Saints Day, the Pope will celebrate Mass in Malmö for Sweden’s tiny Catholic community.Highlighting the importance of this apostolic journey to Sweden to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the protestant Reformation, the Pope asked journalists to help the public understand.Greeting media professionals travelling on board the papal plane to Malmo on Monday morning, Pope Francis said: “This journey is important because it is an ecclesial journey, it’s very ecclesial in the field of ecumenism.“Your work will be a big contribution in making sure people understand well” he said.The formal occasion for the Pope’s visit to Sweden i...
Pope Francis on Monday appointed an archbishop to the Latin Archdiocese of Verapoly in southern India’s Kerala state. He appointed Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil, the Secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, as the new Archbishop of Verapoly. The 64-year old bishop replaces Archbishop Francis Kallarakal who has retired. Verapoly: The Dioceses of Cochin, Kannur, Kottapuram, Sultanpet and Vijayapuram are suffragans of Calicut Metropolitan Archdiocese.Born on Oct 6, 1952, in Vaduthala, Kerala, Bishop Kalathiparambil was ordained priest on March 13, 1978, and appointed Bishop of Calicut in April 2002 and consecrated the following month. Pope Benedict XVI called him to the Vatican in Feb. 2011, to be the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples. But with the reform of Pope Francis of the central admi...
(Vatican Radio) Christian Chavarria Ayala from El Salvador is the artist who designed and painted the wooden cross which has been chosen as the symbol of Pope Francis’ apostolic journey to Sweden to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.The brightly colored cross with its doves, its vine and its depiction of Jesus welcoming people of all backgrounds to participate in his banquet brings a message of hope from one of the most conflict-ridden countries in the world today.Chavarria Ayala told Philippa Hitchen he felt hugely honored when the World Lutheran Federation General Secretary asked him to paint the cross for the prayer service of the Joint Ecumenical Commemoration on Monday 31 October in Lund.Listen to the interview: Christian Chavarria Ayala says his crosses are very colorful and painted in a very simple way “but this is the gift that God gave me, and this is what I have!”He explains that on this particular cross there are ma...
Boston, Mass., Oct 31, 2016 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The last person hanged for witchcraft in Boston could be considered a Catholic martyr.In the 1650s, Ann Glover and her family, along with some 50,000 other native Irish people, were enslaved by Englishman Oliver Cromwell during the occupation of Ireland and shipped to the island of Barbados, where they were sold as indentured servants.What is known of her history is sporadic at best, though she was definitely Irish and definitely Catholic. According to an article in the Boston Globe, even Ann's real name remains a mystery, as indentured servants were often forced to take the names of their masters.While in Barbados, Ann's husband was reportedly killed for refusing to renounce his Catholic faith. By 1680, Ann and her daughter had moved to Boston where Ann worked as a “goodwife” (a housekeeper and nanny) for the John Goodwin family.Father Robert O'Grady, director of the Boston Catholic Directory for the A...
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