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"Missionary of Mercy" Fr. Panneer Selvam, part 1
This year’s Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Season have taken on a special connotation and colour, occurring during the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Pope Francis marked the beginning of the church's Lenten journey by sending off several hundred religious and diocesan priests on their own special path as "Missionaries of Mercy" in local dioceses and parishes. At the Feb. 10 Ash Wednesday Mass, the Pope officially commissioned 762 priests from around the world to go out as special Missionaries of Mercy, empowering them to forgive even the sins that are reserved for the Holy See to pardon.
10-12 June: 398th Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops' Conference in Warsaw (announcement)
The issue of religious education at school, the functioning of the work of the Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops‘ Conference and the election of a new General Secretary of the Polish Bishops’ Conference will be the main topics of the 398th Plenary Assembly of the Polish Episcopate, to be held in Warsaw on 10-12 June this year.
Holy See to OSCE: Combat "headlong race for profit"
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the OSCE, Msgr. Janusz Urbańczyk, on Thursday said the Vatican would like the organization to give “further attention given to the question of the responsible use of resources and their distribution, and to combatting their uncontrolled use in a headlong race for profit.”
Poland: Archbishop Gallagher appeals for freedom of religion and conscience
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, addresses the Conference of the Senate of the Republic of Poland on “Freedom of Conscience and Religion in the Context of a Democratic State,” and, following the calls of recent Popes and Pope Francis, appeals for bolstering and encouraging these liberties.
Bishops of Europe on Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation anniversary: No to anti-Semitism and political manipulation of the truth
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in the spirit of Pope Francis’ words, obliges us to expressly fight against all acts that trample on human dignity: racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. We cannot allow the truth to be ignored or manipulated for immediate political needs – we read in the Statement issued by the Presidency of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) on behalf of the bishops of Europe.
