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The Catholic Church in Macau is celebrating the 450th anniversary of the papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII in 1576, creating the diocese.
Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi.
In his message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, Pope Leo XIV highlights the importance of ensuring that artificial intelligence serves the human person rather than replacing it.
In his message for the 100th World Mission Day, Pope Leo XIV writes that the Church’s identity is to be a community in mission, “at the service of fraternity among all human beings and harmony with all creation.”
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Br. Fabio is bidding farewell to the Philippines, where he has worked for eight years as delegate bursar and administrator of World Mission magazine. As he embraces this “change of horizon,” he recounts his vocation story and what inspired him to become a Comboni Missionary Brother.
Mary, the Lady of Yes, the Mother of Jesus, of the Church, and of all Humanity, is the Great Missionary of the Kingdom because her whole life was one of perseverance and faithfulness. She trusted in God and in His plan of salvation.
Captured and spent a year in prison, died in poor health, and executed by guillotine are sufferings that the three “Francis” experienced in their respective eras. Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier, and Franz Jägerstätter, grasped the hands of fate and left marks of wisdom and hope.
When Pope Francis visited the Philippines in 2015, he declared that people must say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality, warning that “such an economy kills” (Evangelii Gaudium, 53). His message was not abstract theology but a direct indictment of Philippine reality.
Amid checkpoints and surveillance cameras, the Comboni sisters run “Threads of Peace,” a grassroots initiative teaching embroidery, soap‑making, and hope to Bedouin women whose lives have been shattered by walls and displacement. The nuns’ presence acts as a bridge in a divided Holy Land.
