by Michael McG | Feb 25, 2025 | Pope Francis, Rome, Catholic Bishop's Conference
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference, has written to Pope Francis to assure the Holy Father of the prayerful support of Catholics in England and Wales.The Holy Father remains in Gemelli Hospital in Rome with pneumonia and a respiratory tract...
by Michael McG | Dec 5, 2024 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
“For pilgrims of hope” is the prayer intention chosen by Pope Francis for the month of December in a message closely linked to the upcoming Jubilee 2025.The Pope asks us to “pray that this upcoming Jubilee strengthen us in our faith, helping us to recognise the Risen...
by Michael McG | Nov 1, 2024 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
During the month of November, in which the Church traditionally remembers the faithful departed, the Pope invites us to pray with him for all those who have lost a child.Fathers and mothers who have experienced this “particularly intense” pain, which defies all human...
by Michael McG | Oct 28, 2024 | Pope Francis, Encyclicals
Bishop of Shrewsbury Mark Davies has welcomed Pope Francis’ fourth encyclical letter Dilexit nos on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ, as a “great gift”.Bishop Mark said that as the Church seeks to grow in communion, participation and mission, “an...
by Michael McG | Oct 7, 2024 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
“For a shared mission” is the prayer intention chosen by Pope Francis for the month of October – a theme linked to the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod, about which Pope Francis reflects in his message entrusted to the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. He...
by Michael McG | Oct 4, 2024 | Pope Francis
Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting for on Monday (October 7), the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.“In this dramatic hour of our history, while the winds of war and the fires of violence continue to devastate entire...