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The Week in Summary (September 29 - October 5)
150 provincial and general superiors representing active female religious institutes met in Warsaw at the 140th Plenary Assembly of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious in Poland. This year’s assembly focused on the matters concerning formation. There are 17,553 Polish active nuns who serve in such areas of ecclesiastical and social life in Poland and abroad as educational work, various forms of youth assistance, catechization and other forms of evangelization, as well as spiritual and material help.
Pope Francis to Poles: may pastoral visits help you be an open Church
Your homes and parishes traditionally resound with carols and pastoral visits are in progress. May these events help you to be an open Church, reaching out to those who no longer participate in parish life – said Pope Francis, greetings the Polish pilgrims present during the Wednesday general audience.
Institute for Catholic Church Statistics: More people at Sunday Masses and receiving Holy Communion
In 2017, the rate of Catholics participating in Sunday Eucharist increased by 1.6% in comparison to 2016. The rate of Catholics receiving Holy Communion increased by 1%. This means that approximately half a million more Catholics regularly participated in Holy Masses and around 300,000 more people received Holy Communion - according to the latest research of the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics presented on January 8.
Cardinal Semeraro: Let Us Imitate the Devotion of Our New Blessed
Do not fail to call upon Blessed Fr. John Macha for your Church so that she may always be united with her bishop in promoting charity, eliminating divisions, and fighting injustice – said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in his homily at the Mass for the beatification of Fr. John Macha.
