The jubilee as a time of emancipation and restoration requires including those who need acceptance: not limiting ourselves to the select few who appear most worthy of God’s favour. The theme that highlights the jubilee inaugurated by Pope Francis on December 24, “Pilgrims of Hope,” intends to highlight, according to the document that preceded the…
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From pressure on manufacturing companies to parish gun buybacks, parts of the American Catholic world is mobilizing against a culture of violence that causes thousands of victims every year. We talk about it with Father Mike Murphy, one of the creators of the “Gun buyback” campaign. A line of cars has been lining up since…
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Brother Christopher Villanueva, a member of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), uses his creativity in painting to restore and strengthen hope among victims of conflict and natural disasters. His paintings encourage people to grow in faith. He started drawing with pencils, ballpoint pens and crayons when he was in primary school. He drew on…
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Amid conflict in Ambazonia, in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, the Servants of Mary Ministers of the Sick have kept the Notre Dame de la Santé hospital open for ten years. With a large pool of local workers and volunteer doctors, they are strengthening the region’s health system. We visited the Hospital. In the mountainous…
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A recent morning, a group of refugees, mostly men and women from Sudan and Syria, filled the waiting room of a centre run by the…
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A man had two sons. Their names were Rafiki and Tambu. One day he decided to teach them a lesson. He called them early in the…
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In the country of the cedars, dragged into the Middle Eastern conflict, two thousand Caritas volunteers take care of internally displaced people: more than a million,…
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