Pope Francis has released his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, ‘Praise God’, to ‘clarify and complete’ what he started in 2015 with his Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ on how we care for our common home. It has been released at the end of the Season of Creation on...
‘This day…with me…paradise’ Lk 23:43 A message from Cardinal Vincent Nichols ‘As President of Pact, I invite you to join with me in supporting Prisoners’ Sunday on 8th October 2023. Pact is the national Catholic charity providing support to prisoners and...
Free to choose whether to migrate or to stay In his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in 2023, Pope Francis tells us that “we are called to show maximum respect for the dignity of each migrant; this entails accompanying and managing waves of migration...
World Day of the Poor 2023 – “Do Not Turn Away” The full verse from the Book of Tobit 4:7 reads: “Give alms from your possessions. Do not turn your face away from any of the poor, and God’s face will not be turned away from you.” It is...
Sam, a final-year student at the University of Exeter, joined the Columban Missionaries during Laudato Si’ Week this year, following in the footsteps of St Columban to reflect on ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’. We wanted to share his reflections in the...
