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Gospel of 29 October 2024 Matthew 10:28-33 Jesus said to his apostles: 'Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Can you not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father knowing. Why, every hair on your head has been counted. So there is no need to be afraid; you are wo... Read More

On Friday 25th October 2024 to Sunday 27th October 2024, the Community of the Passion held its Autumn Gathering at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. The Community of the Passion is a dispersed group of women and men, finding together a new way of being Passionist, under the auspices of the Passionist Province of Ireland and Britain. Married and single (and including some vowed Passionist members), the Comm... Read More

Pope Francis today received a delegation from the Abrahamic Family House. The House is a complex in the United Arab Emirates' capital of Abu Dhabi, which includes a synagogue, a church and a mosque. The unique structure, inaugurated in early 2023, promotes and further facilitates the living out of interreligious coexistence and harmony laid out in the historic 2019 Document on Human Fraternity for... Read More

While Haiti remains immersed in a deep crisis, the small mountain town of Pourcine has found reasons to celebrate: the arrival of drinking water and the launch of its first group of Catholic Scouts. "In the parish of Our Lady of Help, 70 children, young people and adults have participated in the inauguration of the KIRO movement, a Catholic branch of Scouts. It was a weekend of training, games and... Read More

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia has once again urged the international community to focus on disarmament and peace rather than fuelling further violence through military spending and new weapon technologies. Addressing the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly on conventional weapons, on October 24, the Vatican Permanent Observer reiterated the Holy See's deep concern about the ongoing increase in th... Read More

The long-awaited third annual Chopin Festival took place at the Polish Social and Cultural Centre (POSK) in Hammersmith last Saturday, with an impressive program, beautifully organised by Janusz Sikora-Sikorski. Besides a classical concert of Chopin's music performed in the POSK Theatre, on their brand new Steinway, by two world class pianists: Aleksandra Swigut and Piotr Pawlak, together with ris... Read More

On Sunday, October 27, 2024, the Holy Family Parish in Gaza celebrated the feast of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and the Holy Land with a profound act of devotion. During a special Mass presided over by Fr Gabriel Romanelli, IVE, along with Fr Yousef and Fr Carlos Ferrero, Provincial Superior of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, 16 young men and women from the parish consecrated themselves to Je... Read More

Pope: May we be a Church on the move, sharing the joy of the GospelAt the concluding Mass of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis encourages us to be like Bartimaeus in today's Gospel and "entrust our blindness to the Lord" in order to be "a missionary Church that walks with her Lord through the streets of the world." Pope Francis presided over the concluding Mass of the Gene... Read More

Gospel of 28 October 2024 Luke 6:12-19 Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them 'apostles': Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Ju... Read More

In his final address on Saturday evening, at the Synod Assembly, Pope Francis presented the Synod's Final Document as a "threefold gift." The Holy Father highlighted how the Final Document, written over the course of the 2nd Session of the Synod on Sinodality that began on 2 October following a process of listening and dialogue, is the fruit of over three years of listening to the People of God. ... Read More

A press conference was held on Saturday evening 26 October, to discuss the Synod's Final Document. Synod leaders pointed to the need to shift the language and perspective with which we understand the Church. Moving away from a vision of the universal Church as a kind of multinational corporation, the Church is instead to be seen as a "communion of Churches," with growing contributions from laypers... Read More

When floodwaters sweep through a village, or sudden attacks rain down by rogue militia, families are forced to the flee their homes at a moment's notice. There is no time to pack, no gathering supplies, no taking a long last look. There is only time to grab your loved ones and run. Between wars, civil unrest, and natural disasters, more than two million people have been displaced in South Sudan. W... Read More

Yesterday, 26 October, the second month-long session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality concluded in the Vatican. This Synod was a Church gathering of 368 delegates of lay women and men, clergy and religious orders from all over the world, to discuss the theme 'For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission.' Bishop Brendan Leahy, Bishop of Limerick, and ... Read More

CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Debt Justice, Greenpeace, Amnesty International UK and others are urging the new government to increase funding to tackle the climate crisis and introduce legislation to facilitate debt relief for lower income countries in crisis. Labour MP Sarah Champion, the Chair of the International Development Committee, has backed their appeal and urged Ministers to demonstrate... Read More