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Bishops of Congo call on nation to embrace love and forgiveness
Congo Brazzaville's Catholic newspaper, “La Semaine Africaine” reports this week that the Bishops of Congo Brazzaville, at the end of their Plenary Assembly, have released a pastoral statement calling on the people of the Republic of Congo to live their “Christian vocation as witnesses of God’s mercy to others.” This, the Bishops emphasise, “means showing God’s forgiveness, compassion, tenderness and love, to build a fairer Congo, where unity, reconciliation, dialogue, harmony and sharing take precedence over selfishness, hatred, rancour, vindictiveness and divisions,” the Bishops emphasise.
Committee on Mission of the Polish Bishops’ Conference has summarized the past year of missionary formation in Poland
“The missionaries whom I had the opportunity to visit in Congo Brazzaville and Angola expressed great gratitude to the Church in Poland, which supports their missionary ministry with prayer and material and financial support”, said Bishop Jan Piotrowski, opening the meeting of the Episcopal Committee for the Missions. The meeting, which took place on 13 March at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, summarized a year of formation and missionary animation in Poland.
Fr James Martin: 'Mercy in Motion' helps mercy go global
(Vatican Radio) As policy-makers, politicians and analysts debate questions such as border closures, taxation for refugees and ‘search and rescue’ missions, hundreds of thousands of refugees and forced migrants – men, women and children – struggle to find footing and dignity in whichever their place of arrival.
Spokesman of the Polish Episcopate: Declaration Fiducia supplicans does not change the teaching of the Church
The Declaration does not change anything in the teaching of the Church about marriage and the family. This is actually not a document about the teaching of the Church about marriage and the family, but rather about the proper understanding of the term “blessing” – reads the statement of the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Fr. Leszek Gęsiak SJ.
