by Michael McG | Sep 8, 2023 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
In The Pope Video for the month of September, Pope Francis asks us to pray “for those people who live on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out”.Pope Francis asks: “How...
by Michael McG | Aug 1, 2023 | Pope's Prayer Intention, Pope Francis
In the latest “Popecast” by Vatican News’ Salvatore Cernuzio, Pope Francis listens to recorded questions from a group of young people who share their personal stories.To each he responds with words of encouragement. |The questions and his answers are featured in an...
by Michael McG | Aug 1, 2023 | Appeals and Special Events, Pope Francis, World Youth Day, Pope's Prayer Intention
Pope Francis’ monthly prayer intention for August is for World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.The Pope invited the Church to pray for this intention in this month’s The Pope Video, which is entrusted to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide...
by Michael McG | Jul 4, 2023 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
The new Pope Video invites us to place the Eucharistic celebration at the centre of our lives: “It is the presence of Jesus, it is deeply transforming.”Pope Francis affirms that the Eucharist “gives us the courage to go out of ourselves, and to open ourselves to...
by Michael McG | Jun 6, 2023 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
The new Pope Video contains a powerful call for the abolition of torture.The Holy Father condemns not only the most violent forms of torture but also those that are “more sophisticated, such as degrading someone, dulling the senses, or mass detentions in inhumane...
by Michael McG | Apr 3, 2023 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
The Pope Video for April is an appeal to build a culture of peace that should resort less and less to the use of arms because “a lasting peace can exist only without weapons.”Sixty years after St John XXIII published the encyclical Pacem in Terris, Pope Francis renews...