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A diocese in Bangladesh held a three-day pastoral meeting last week on the theme of "joy of merciful love in the Christian family" to reflect on the sacrament of marriage and to respond to the crisis of the family. The Bishop, priests and speakers of Rajshahi Diocese came together September 12 to 14 to discuss the many challenges facing families in the diocese. While stressing on the indissolubility of Christian marriage, Bishop Gervas Rozario who heads the diocese of over 60 thousand Catholics, noted that "only love makes the family alive and family life joyful”. Around 203 Catholics from 21 parishes attended the meeting with each parish submitting a report on the problems encountered in families. They picked out challenges such as lack of dialogue between husband and wife, increasingly frequent cohabitation outside of marriage, alcoholism and drugs, and suggested practical ways to overcome them. A priest, Fr. Go...
The Missionaries of Charity in the Catholic Diocese of Maralal are a happy lot after the canonization of their founder, Mother Theresa of Kolkata on 4th, September 2016. This has renewed their faith and zeal to serve the poorest of the poor.In an exclusive interview with Waumini News Today, Sr. Jane Maria MC said, the Sisters received the news of the canonization with a lot of joy.“I was so happy that Mother Theresa has been made a saint, I lived with her in Kolkata for a year, and I am excited that one of the people I knew personally is a Saint because I am sure she continues praying for me and the others,” said Sr. Jane Maria.In Kenya, the sisters who follow closely in the footsteps of St. Theresa of Calcutta serve in one of the remotest and inaccessible villages of Samburu County inhabited by the Samburu, Pokot and Turkana people who are mostly pastoralists.According to Sr. Jane Maria , the nuns rescue infants as young as one day old whose mothers have died; nurse a...
(Vatican Radio) A Holy See delegation, led by the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, on Monday joined other world leaders in New York for a high level Summit hosted by the UN General Assembly to address issues related to large scale movements of refugees and migrants.Faith-based organizations are holding a side event on the same subject to make sure questions regarding the human rights of refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants are not up for debate. One of the faith-based organizations calling for a people-centered, human rights and dignity approach to internal and international migrants and refugees is the Jesuit Refugee Service.Jesuit Father Michael Gallagher, JRS representative to the United Nations in Geneva told Linda Bordoni that while he welcomes the unprecedented summit and its outcome document which reiterates a series of fundamental commitments, there are important issues – such as the commitment not to detain migrant children - that hav...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday accepted the credentials of Britain’s new ambassador to the Holy See, Sally Axworthy, who has worked extensively on conflict resolution in north and eastern Africa.Axworthy, who is married with four children, joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1986 and has recently headed its department for North Africa, as well as for the Great Lakes, East Africa and Somalia regions.She has also had diplomatic experience in Russia, Ukraine, Germany and India.Just after the papal audience, she came to Vatican Radio to share her impressions and to talk about the skills she hopes to bring to this new position.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's interview with Ambassador Axworthy: Ambassador Axworthy speaks first of her first meeting with Pope Francis who, she said, was very humble, simple, friendly and keen to “pass on his good memories of meeting the Queen”.In her first blog post, the new ambassador talks about her top prioritie...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICANCITY (CNS) -- A nuncio is not simply a "diplomat in a (priest's)collar," but must truly be a priest and bishop who listens, supports andserves as a channel of God's mercy, Pope Francis said.Spendingmuch of the day Sept. 17 with 106 archbishops who represent him and the Vaticanin countries around the world, Pope Francis thanked the nuncios for theirconstant willingness to pack up, move to a new country, learn a new languageand deal with new challenges. And,he said, he knew that every four or five years they get another"sugarcoated" phone call from Rome and do it all again.Gatheredat the Vatican from their posts around the world, the nuncios had meetings,Masses and prayer services as part of their Year of Mercy celebration. Atan early morning Mass, a mid-morning meeting and a luncheon in the DomusSanctae Marthae, the pope looked at their personal lives as priests, theirservice to local churches as his representative and their diplo...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Nikos Arvanidtis, EPABy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Offering migrants and refugees trulyhelpful and loving hospitality is the greatest guarantee against terrorism,Pope Francis said.The current refugee and migration crisis, with more than 65million people forcibly displaced from their homes, has become "thegreatest humanitarian crisis after the Second World War," he said."At this place and time in history, there is great needfor men and women who hear the cry of the poor and respond with mercy andgenerosity," he told graduates of Jesuit schools and universities duringan audience at the Vatican Sept. 17.The alumni are members of the World Union and the EuropeanConfederation of Jesuit Alumni; they were in Rome taking part in a conferenceon the migration and refugee crisis.The pope told them that with their Jesuit education andunderstanding of Gospel values, they can help the church "respond morefully to the human tragedy of refugees through acts of mercy that pro...
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