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Pope visits pediatric hospital in Mexico City
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday visited the “Federico Gómez” Pediatric Hospital in Mexico City. He told the children " I ask God to bless you, and to accompany you and your families, and all those people who work in this home and try to ensure that your smiles grow day by day." The hospital was inaugurated in 1943 and it was visited by Pope St John Paul II on his journey to Mexico in 1979.
President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference urges Catholics to reflect on the pontificate and historic legacy of the Polish Pope
I call on the faithful to read the Position of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops’ Conference regarding the action taken by John Paul II with respect to sexual crimes against minors and to reflect on the pontificate and historic legacy of the Polish Pope, wrote President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki in a communiqué to be read out in Polish churches on Sunday, November 20.
Pope’s Day: Several thousand young people granted with scholarships
On the 102nd anniversary of the last Fatima apparition, the 19th Pope’s Day was celebrated in Poland under the motto “Rise! Let Us Be On Our Way”, organized by the “Work of the New Millennium” Foundation, which collects funds for scholarships for talented and unprivileged youth from small towns. During the nineteen years of its activity, the Foundation has taken care of several thousand young people from all over Poland in accordance with Pope Wojtyła’s call to “a new imagination of mercy”.
Letter from the President of Polish Bishops' Conference on the occasion of the inauguration of the Abraham J. Heschel Center at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL)
The establishment of the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin is a realization of the Council's declaration Nostra aetate and the Church's teaching expressed by successive Popes - wrote Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, in a letter on the occasion of the inauguration of the Abraham J. Heschel Center at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
Pope Francis names Douglas Deshotel as Bishop of Lafayette
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named Bishop John Douglas Deshotel, as Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, and accepted the resignation of Bishop C. Michael Jarrell, from pastoral governance of that diocese. Bishop Deshotel has served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Dallas since 2010.
Poland: Pope Francis wrote a letter on the 90th anniversary of the first apparition of Jesus to St. Faustina
I would like to recall the words of the Lord Jesus recorded by the saint in her Diary: "Humanity will not know peace until it turns to the source of my mercy" – wrote Pope Francis in a letter to the Bishop of the diocese of Płock (Poland), Piotr Libera, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the first apparition of Jesus Merciful to Saint Faustina Kowalska. It took place on February 22, 1931 in Płock.
Przewodniczący Episkopatu: Dzięki św. Janowi Pawłowi II wielu odnalazło drogę ku Chrystusowi
Chcemy wyrazić naszą głęboką wdzięczność za tak wiele dobra, które Papież wniósł w naszą społeczność, w życie całego świata. Dzięki niemu wielu odnalazło drogę ku Chrystusowi i otworzyło się na drugiego człowieka – podkreślił przewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Polski abp Tadeusz Wojda SAC z okazji 20. rocznicy przejścia św. Jana Pawła II do Domu Ojca.
