Pope’s August prayer intention: For World Youth Day in Lisbon
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...
Pope invites us to put the Eucharist at centre of our lives
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...
Pope: ‘Let us put a stop to this horror of torture!’
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...
Pope Francis calls for a culture of peace
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...
