Vatican City: Pope Francis announced December 27 a special year dedicated to the family, marking the fifth anniversary of the publication of his apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia. In his Angelus address on the feast of the Holy Family, the Pope noted that March 19, 2021, would mark five years sinceContinue Reading
Munich: The controversy regarding Amoris laetitia has come to an end, according to German cardinal Walter Kasper. What is more, he has affirmed that the admission of remarried divorced persons to the sacraments in individual cases is, in his view, the only correct interpretation of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation. WritingContinue Reading
Cardinal Oswald Gracias delivered a speech in Mumbai, India about Pope Francis’s document on the family, ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ without mentioning the controversies that have consumed many people in the west. Instead, he discussed the document’s calling on families to proactively live the Gospel, and be protagonists of the Church’s mission of evangelization.Continue Reading
Cologne,Germany: Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the former Archbishop of Cologne, has died at the age of 83. Meisner, considered a leader of the conservative wing of the German episcopate, was one of the four cardinals who presented the “dubia” to Pope Francis, seeking clarifications on the document Amoris Laetitia. The Cologne archdioceseContinue Reading
Second year students of Vidyajyoti made an 11-scene play from the papal exhortationContinue Reading
There is a need to incorporate some of the key elements and messages from ‘Amoris LaetitiaContinue Reading
Cardinal Raymond Burke has said it may be necessary to make a “formal act of correction” if Pope Francis doesn’t answer a letter from four cardinalsContinue Reading
Mumbai:Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ speaks of families as the primary setting for socialisation, helping the future generation learn issues of primary importance, namely of ‘faith’, ‘hope’ and ‘charity’. Father Fabio Attard, the Salesian General Councillor for Youth Ministry, in the South Asia Youth Ministry Regional meetingContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The Church in India has taken the initiative to bring the teachings of the papal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) to people at grassroots. A major step toward this was the publication of the Hindi translation of the exhortation by the Conference of Catholic Bishops ofContinue Reading
The world will go on with a few people who are willing to sacrifice luxury for quality time with their familyContinue Reading