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Australians urged to fight human trafficking, injustice
The Catholic Church of Australia is calling on its citizens not to be indifferent to human trafficking and take simple steps to combatting global injustice. The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Pastoral life (BCPL) and Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) are calling for a day of prayer, reflection and action against human trafficking on 8 February, the Feast of St Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who was rescued and later became a Canossian nun, and was declared a Saint in 2000. Last year, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Union of Superiors General, promoted the first “International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking”, or Bakhita Day, on Feb. 8.
About 500 million PLN was donated by the Polish Church to refugees from Ukraine
Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes in Poland collected and provided Ukrainian refugees staying in Poland with financial and material aid worth at least 209 million PLN, monks and friars donated - 29 million PLN, and nuns donated- 4.3 million PLN. The value of the support provided through Caritas Polska and diocesan Caritas is 241.3 million PLN - according to data presented on Wednesday by the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic Church and Caritas Polska.
Cardinal Semeraro: In the Ulma Family we find the traces of Christ's Way of the Cross
The family of Józef and Wiktoria showed the power of love, much greater than the power of death – said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, during the Holy Mass celebrated in the Church of St Dorothy in Markowa, on the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Blessed Ulma Family.
Bishop Lechowicz invites for IV Congress of Polish Families online (20 - 21 November 2021)
"The Polish Family in the face of the current pandemic situation" - this is the topic of the next International Congress of Polish Families, which will be held online from the 20th to 21st November 2021. As His Excellency, Bishop Wiesław Lechowicz has informed us, during the Congress, the issues related to marital and family relations, as well as the upbringing and education of youth and children in this difficult time of the pandemic will be discussed.
Il Presidente dell'Episcopato Polaccho ricorda Wojtyła e le caratteristiche della santità personale del Papa
L'Arcivescovo Stanisław Gądecki, Presidente della Conferenza Episcopale Polacca, in una conversazione con il portavoce della Conferenza Episcopale, don Leszek Gęsiak SJ, ricorda gli incontri con il Card. Karol Wojtyła, il Pontificato di Giovanni Paolo II, e parla della santità personale del Papa polacco.
L'arcivescovo ricorda che si trovava in piazza San Pietro in Vaticano quanto è stato eletto dal Conclave come Papa a un polacco ed è stato fatto il nome di Wojtyla. Si rese conto allora che stava accadendo qualcosa che forse non accadrà mai più, che accade ogni 1000 anni nella storia dei polacchi e del nostro popolo cristiano.
"In quel momento, pensando alla situazione in cui si trova il Papa, riflettevo su come avrebbe potuto far fronte a tutta la macchina vaticana, perché mi sembrava che Wojtyła non avesse una preparazione tale da guidare la Chiesa come tanti cardinali dell'Occidente. Tuttavia, si è dimostrato che il Papa Santo ha fatto un ottimo lavoro dedicandosi al compito principale di Pietro, cio
