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The Mass at Santa Marta

No one must kill
in God's name

No one must kill in God's name. Instead, each and every one not only can but must do good, whatever faith they profess, for “they have within them the commandment to do good”, since they are “created in the image of God”. This is the essence of Pope Francis reflection this morning, Wednesday, 22 May, for those who took part in the celebration of early Mass in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The Gospel passage from Mark (9:38-40), proclaimed at the Mass, refers to the disciples' complaint...
 
The Pope's Mass at Santa Marta

True power is service

True power is service.  On Tuesday, 21 May, at Mass in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae the Pontiff returned to a topic that he has mentioned previously, this time commenting on the Gospel passage of the day (Mk 9:30-37).  The tragic news of the tornado which devastated Oklahoma City, USA was mentioned  during the Prayers of the Faithful, of which one of the intentions was for the victims. In the Gospel account Jesus passed through Galilee in the company of his disciples and he spoke to...
 
On the Solemnity of Pentecost the Pope celebrates the Day of movements, new communities, associations and lay groups

A Church that reaches out to all

A Church not closed in on itself but open to meeting everyone and commited to being alongside the poorest of the poor in the “outskirts of existence” of the world. This is what Pope Francis proposed to the movements, the new communities, associations and lay groups on the Feast of Pentecost. On the day dedicated to them during the Year of Faith, the Pope met twice, in a matter of hours, the leaders of these ecclesial realities arriving in crowds at St Peter's Square. At the prayer vigil, presided...
 
Morning Masses in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae

Good manners and bad habits

After “armchair Christians” come “gossiping Christians”, Pope Francis said on Saturday, 18 May, at morning Mass in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. He expounded on the bad habits that conflict with the “good manners” displayed by so many Christians. And among the bad habits is, precisely, that of “flaying” each other alive with words, with misinformation or with slander. Gossip, the Pope said, “is destructive to the Church”. Jesus often spoke of this to Peter and to all the others, as the...
 
Morning Mass at Santa Marta 17 May

Peter’s shame

Being a sinner is not the problem. Rather the problem is not repenting of the sin, not feeling shame for what happened. Pope Francis — during this morning's homily, Friday 17 May, at the Chapel of Santa Marta — meditated on the history of Peter’s meeting with Jesus, who he noted, “entrusts his flock to a sinner”, Peter. “A sinner but not a corrupt one”, he explained. Referring to us all he said: “sinners, yes, all of us! but corrupt, no”. It is worse to be corrupt than a sinner. What developed...
 

The fire of mission

Mission: without a doubt this is the best word to describe the close of that great Pentecost meeting of the Bishop of Rome with over 200,000 people belonging, to Catholic associations and movements....
 
Volume XII of the Opera Omnia [complete works] of Joseph Ratzinger

Homilies for friends

The Italian edition of Volume XII of Joseph Ratzinger's Opera Omnia, edited by Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is now on sale in bookshops. ...
 

Badam Zari
the first woman candidate in Pakistan

An illiterate Pakistani woman, Badam Zari, is the first woman to be a candidate in the elections in the tribal areas of her country, a conservative region where the right to vote for many women is still...
 

The First Birthday

Women Church World is celebrating its first birthday. It is an important milestone. In these past 12 months we have tried to listen to the voice of women who are a fundamental and essential pillar of...
 

Rita and her impossible flight

Rita is the name of my maternal grandmother, a woman of peasant origins from Asti, who has always cultivated a close devotional relationship with her saint: in fact, her legal name was Magdalene but...
 
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