Can't go to confession during coronavirus? Consider an 'act of perfect contrition'
Despite some creative efforts by priests to continue to offer the confessions during the pandemic, country-wide lockdowns and stay-at-home orders mean that Catholics around the world are finding it difficult to seek God’s forgiveness in the confessional.
Pope at Mass: many fires of war today – true peace is sown in...
Celebrating Mass on Thursday, Pope Francis points the way to peace saying, one must “remain in the Lord” by loving in “little things”. Peace in the world, he says, begins with peace in the heart.
70th anniversary of Pope Francis’ discovery of vocation to priesthood
Seventy years ago, on 21 September 1953, the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio - now Pope Francis - went to confession before a party and had...
Pope: “Deacons are the guardians of service in the Church”
Pope Francis on Saturday met a group of permanent deacons from Rome Diocese and spoke to them about their role, which he said is not a substitution for a priest or a bishop.
In Hong Kong, ‘Friends of Caritas’ raises funds through TV show
A charity TV show, organized by the Friends of Caritas, has raised nearly HK$10 million as of July 11. The Caritas Charity TV Show aired...
Ecuador: Young people undertake mission to reach Indigenous communities
“It is not we who change the communities but they who change us.” This is how Mónica Calva, an Idente missionary and Director of the...