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Pope makes surprise visit to San Carlo community
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday paid a surprise visit to the San Carlo community at the Italian Centre for Solidarity (CeIS) near Castelgandalfo in the Alban hills. Founded by Father Mario Picchi, the San Carlo community works to prevent and combat social exclusion, focusing especially on those suffering from drug addiction.
UK Lay Organisation Responds to Call for Acts of Mercy
(Vatican Radio) The Order of the Knights of Saint Columba is a Catholic organisation for men in the United Kingdom, founded almost 100 years ago and dedicated to the principles of charity, unity and fraternity. The Order is named after the Irish missionary who travelled to Scotland in the sixth century.
The President of the Polish Episcopate Encourages Hospitality Towards Refugees
Poland's Baptism over 1050 years ago had social, cultural, popular and national dimensions—said Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki during the XXV Pilgrimage of Radio Maryja to Jasna Gora, which gathered nearly 100,000 people. The President of the Polish Bishops' Conference urged the Church in Poland to care for the neediest, including migrants and refugees, as an example of the attitude of Christian charity.
The welcome of Pope Francis by Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki
Welcoming the Pope at Wawel, Polish Episcopal Conference President Abp. Stanislaw Gadecki said that the pontiff's pilgrimage came during the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. "The church in Poland feels a special responsibility in this area. This is because the message of mercy is closely connected with a daughter of our country, St. Faustina Kowalska, as well as with St. Pope John Paul II, both of whom - through their lives and their writing - brought its value closer to us," he remarked.
