While the call to live like a Christian is “the same as saying to live ‘like a saint,'” it does not mean “having a face like on a prayer card,” the pope said in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae.
Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily.
Meeting with priests and lay leaders of the diocese of Rome, the pope said he realised the negative social implications of technology a few days earlier when he was greeting teens participating in a programme of the international network of Scholas Occurrentes.
The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, describing the woes of his country under the Soviets, said: “Men have forgotten God.”
Recent studies among European youth back this up: even the leftovers of a vague identification with cultural Christianity are evaporating
Fr John Allen Green OFM – Many, many years ago, before I was due to be solemnly professed into religious...
This year’s Spiritfest at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival will celebrate the arts in the context of the Christian faith. Spiritfest runs throughout the festival, from June 28 to July 8.
Christians must pass on the faith by giving witness through their example and not by persuading others to choose sides, Pope Francis said.
The Thursdays in Black (TinB) campaign is a project spearheaded by the KwaZulu-Natal Diakonia Council of Churches, and was launched in Durban in 2008 to tie in with the 16 Days of activism.
Convinced that faith communities would want to share prayer requests, announcements and service opportunities without going to multiple platforms and without being awash in advertising, a group of friends created an app just for that.
