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Series: Francis: The People´s Pope
Education

Girls are Going Back to School

On weekday mornings in Mingora, the largest city in Swat Valley, Pakistan, the streets are filled with boys heading to school. Among them are smaller groups of schoolgirls laughing and tucking books under their arms, as they, too, head to school. The scene highlights how far the region has come in the past few years: The Swat Valley, famed for its picturesque mountains, saw more than 400 schools destroyed – more than half of them girls’ schools – when the Taliban took control of the region in 2008.

UCA News
WM Special

The Reasons of our Joy

Christmas Season in the Philippines is in full swing with the joy of Mama Mary
holding the Baby Jesus in her arms at Bethlehem. It is the joy of Francis of Assisi,
the saint of the “Belen.” Pope Francis has made this joy the motif of his proclamation, a joy that he discovered as passion for Jesus in his family and in his youth, even through suffering and trials; as commitment to the poor and appreciation of community in his maturity and as fruit of contemplation in his ministry of unity as a pope.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
WM Special

Pope Francis’ Pearls

In a time of predominance of the culture of the image, Pope Francis has given back power to the spoken word. Never has a pope spoken like Francis: human and candid. How refreshing to hear a pope speak like us: informal, direct, simple and provocative. The Pope’s words nail us down and do not allow us to be indifferent.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Special Report

Carpenters and Fishermen Were Quite Well-off

We tend to imagine the past based on our modern experience but the Israel where Jesus was born was quite different from the one that most of us can imagine. For instance, most of the small population were peasants who worked for landlords who lived in Jerusalem. Jesus, a carpenter, and the disciples, fishermen, belonged to a quite well-off class. Another usually ignored fact: Jews were perhaps the most literate people of their time, which tells a lot about the religious, literary and poetic genius expressed in the Bible.

Fr. Joseph Caramazza | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

The Great Friendship

The essence of the marital companionship of the French philosopher Jacques Maritain and Raissa, the Russian mystic, was a great friendship that would be their way to holiness. Jacques (1882-1973) met Raissa (1883-1961) when both were students at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. They soon became inseparable. Together, they overcame despair, found Christ in the bosom of the Catholic Church and mapped out their individual destiny: Jacques, as a scholar and university professor; Raissa, as a pilgrim of the Absolute through her journal and poetry. Their house became also the hub of a network of knowledge and grace that brought many back to God and to the Church. When his companion preceded him in death, Jacques joined the community of The Little Brothers of Jesus and died there at 90.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary

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