The Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod published the Instrumentum laboris on 20 June 2023. The document, which calls for a welcoming Church that embraces diversity, will guide the work of the participants in the two-part General Assembly that will meet in Rome in October 2023 and in October 2024.
Passionist Family Groups are a proven way to extend our small nuclear family circles and create a ‘family for all’, says National Coordinator Paul Traynor.
Recently, I shared with the Family Groups some insights from Dr Bruce Perry MD – A Psychiatrist working with ‘Trauma’. The following paragraphs spoke to me in relation to the aims and goals of Passionist Family Groups. It comes back to extending ourselves to others to be a ‘Family for All’.
Twelve engaged couples completed a marriage preparation programme together over two consecutive Sundays in June.
In an unexpected and highly significant move, Pope Francis has appointed the Argentine theologian and archbishop Victor Manuel ‘Tucho’ Fernández as the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican has announced.
In a surprise announcement, Pope Francis announced that he will hold a consistory on 30 September 2023 to create 21 new cardinals, 18 of them electors with the right to vote in the next conclave.
Catholic universities must not recoil from the daunting risks of artificial intelligence but become proactively involved in its ethical development, says the head of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education.
The little boy who managed to get past the crowd control barrier at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 to hug Pope Francis is now a seminarian preparing for the priesthood.
US Bishops’ International Justice and Peace Chairman, Bishop David Malloy, has expressed public concern regarding President Joe Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs for use against Russian forces.
Br Alois Löser, prior of the Taizé Community for the past nearly two decades, has announced he is stepping down as leader of the world-renowned ecumenical monastery in France that was founded by the late Brother Roger Schutz.