June 2018

Pope Sends Missionary Families to South Africa

Pope Francis has commissioned four families from the Neocatechumenal Way to become missionaries in the Cape Town archdiocese. The four families — from Brazil, Germany, India and the United States — have concluded their visa processes and will settle soon as part of a new missio ad gentes (“mission to the nations”) to South Africa.

How Understandings of the Sacraments Differ

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human nature. By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, they make present efficaciously the grace that they signify (1084).