MESSAGES - As Catholic religious leaders in the U.S., CMSM is sick with grief and disgust at the recent decision by the administration to put children and young people in abrupt uncertainty by ending DACA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides work authorization and temporary protection from deportation to about 780,000 people who were brought...
MESSAGES - Dear Superiors General, I am writing on behalf of the Association of French and English Speaking General Treasurers to inform you and your General Treasurers about our Association in case you are unaware of it. You may be new to Rome yourselves or perhaps have a new treasurer has not yet discovered the Association. Please share this information...
MESSAGES - Statement about “Future Energy” by religious leaders gathered in Astana for the interreligious event ALL TOGETHER FOR THE CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME, organized during the EXPO 2017. It was signed by: Dr. Clare Amos, on behalf World Council of Churches, Rabbi Daniel Sperber, representative of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel...
MESSAGES - Dear brothers and sisters! “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 19:34). Throughout the first years of my pontificate, I have repeatedly expressed my particular concern for the lamentable situation of many migrants...
MESSAGES - Vatican Press Office Director, Greg Burke, said August 17, 2017 that: “The Holy Father has been deeply concerned about what is happening in Barcelona. The Pope prays for the victims of this attack and wishes to express his closeness to the whole Spanish people, Particularly to the wounded and the families of the victims. Burke’s statement on behalf of the Holy Father...
MESSAGES - Dear Supreme Moderator, In anticipation of and in preparation for the Synod of Bishops to be held in 2018 on the topic "Young people, faith and vocation discernment", this Dicastery has organized a Conference for Major Superiors and Vocation Animation Personnel, to be held in Rome from November 30th to December 3 rd 2017, at the PontificaI Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum...
MESSAGES - Pope Francis sent a mail to cloistered Carmelite nun Monica Astorga — who for the past 11 years has worked with transsexuals in Argentina, getting them to abandon prostitution and addictions –encouraging her in her work. “I have you and the convent very close to my heart. “I have you and the convent very close to my heart, as well as the persons with whom you work...
MESSAGES - “Respect, responsibility and relations”: these are the three “Rs” that enable us to address the “most existential imperatives of our coexistence”. Pope Francis wrote this in the message he addressed to the participants in the international Congress on “Laudato Si’ and Big Cities” that is taking place in Mexico City until 15 July. “Respect is the fundamental attitude...
MESSAGES - “Do not yield to nostalgia, but be men who, moved by faith in the God of history and of life, proclaim the coming of the dawn amid the darkness of the night.” Pope Francis gave these words of encouragement to the participants in the 32nd General Chapter of the Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Resurrectionists)....
MESSAGES - Joint ecumenical statement for World Refugee Day 2017. The Christian Bible tells the story of two men, Peter and Cornelius, utterly divided by religious belief and culture, who in encountering each other discovered a truth about God’s common will for them that neither had previously grasped. They learnt that the Holy Spirit brings down...
