Migrants and Refugees: Towards a better world.That is the title of Pope Francis’ message released today for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees which is celebrated on January 19, 2014.   Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our societies are experiencing, in an unprecedented way, processes of mutual interdependence and interaction on the global level. While ...read more

By Carol GlatzCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Helping the church get the Gospel message out to the digital world depends more on a loving passion for reaching out to others than being tech savvy or a verbal warrior, Pope Francis told Catholic communicators. “I believe that the goal is to understand how to ...read more

When Pope Francis announced a day of Prayer for Peace in Syria, Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton was in Italy, close to Grossetto. He and his travel companions decided to take part in this unique event. Bishop Crosby wrote about the experience in his weekly letter to the clergy of the diocese. Read about Bishop ...read more

    The following is the address given by Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, to his brother bishops at the opening of the plenary assembly of the CCCB. My brother Bishops, guests, and members of our staff, On February 11th of this year, a photographer captured a ...read more

This post is part of a series of reflections by TJP writers on Pope Francis’s recent interview. Full Series List: The Papal Interview: Young Jesuits React and Reflect The Original Interview: At America Magazine By Brendan Busse, SJ “Prayer for me is always a prayer full of memory, of recollection, even the memory of my ...read more

Today shortly after noon, Pope Francis addressed the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Pope Francis said the goal of the Church for its communications efforts is to understand how to enter into dialogue with the men and women of today in order to appreciate their desires, their doubts and ...read more

Fr. Rosica’s introduction: Allowing ourselves to be looked upon by Jesus, whose gaze changes our lives: this was the focus of Pope Francis’ remarks after the readings at Mass on Saturday morning, the Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, whose conversion story is told in the Gospel passage of the day, a Gospel story that has ...read more

The following post was shared with us by our friends and collaborators at The Jesuit Post. It is part of a series called “The Papal Interview: Young Jesuits React and Reflect”. We will bring you that series all this week.  by Eric Sundrup, SJ Breaking – Francis said something and most people are convinced it ...read more

Fr. Antonio Spadaro’s interview of Pope Francis, published this week in Jesuit publications around the world, set people of all religious stripes talking. However, it soon became clear who read the interview carefully, in it’s entirety, and who focused on the headline worthy bits. How did it become clear? Throughout the interview Pope Francis used ...read more

In this lengthy personal interview, published in Jesuit magazines around the world today, Pope Francis talks frankly about himself, his Jesuit background and his vision for a more open, inclusive and welcoming Church. The publication is the result of three private meetings that the Pope held with the head of the Italian Jesuit magazine La ...read more