Chaplains in Ireland looking to innovative ways to reach out to prisoners in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Over the past year, many people have been coming together to lend their help and support to each other as the invisible enemy that is COVID-19 continues to spread. One has only to look at the thousands of people volunteering at vaccine centres, helping to ensure the process of administering inoculations runs smoothly. Healthcare workers […]
Vatican provides Covid-19 vaccination for 100 homeless people
The Office of Papal Charities, in response to Pope Francis’ appeals that no one be excluded from receiving the Covid-19 vaccines, organised an initiative of providing 1,200 of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society with an opportunity of getting vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – the same administered to the Pope and the […]
Preaching of the Gospel always linked to the embrace of a Cross – Pope Francis
In his homily during Holy Thursday’s Chrism Mass, Pope Francis underlined that the preaching of the Gospel “is always linked to the embrace of some particular cross.” He explained that the Gospel shows us the extent to which “persecution and the cross are linked to the proclamation of the Gospel.” Dwelling on the “hours” leading […]