In late May Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs organized a seminar on “Religious Freedom: Protecting Religious Minorities” in cooperation with Finn Church Aid, the Finnish Ecumenical Council, and the Network of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers. […]
On Sunday, June 5, Blessed Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad—a Swedish-born Lutheran who converted to Catholicism—will be canonized. At the beginning of the last century she founded, or rather re-founded, a congregation of nuns, the Order of […]
Just a few days before the publication of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family, a book launch was held in Rome featuring several distinguished cardinals and prelates from around the world. The book, Con […]
Kuopio is Finland’s eighth largest city and the capital of Northern Savonia, the country’s important eastern region, and on March 19, 2016, the Feast of Saint Joseph, it saw the first Catholic church established in […]
For many years now, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (from January 18, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, until January 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul), an […]
Pope Francis’ visit on Sunday, January 17 to Rome’s major synagogue was the latest in a series of recent events highlighting Catholic/Jewish relations. On that occasion—Francis’ first visit to the synagogue as pope—he stated that […]
The fourth Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage recently brought to Rome more than one thousand tradition-minded Catholics from around the world October 22-25, 2015. The pilgrimage concluded on Sunday, October 25 with a late-morning Pontifical Mass for […]
The first international pilgrimage Summorum Pontificum, after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s motu proprio that liberalized the celebration of the traditional Roman rite of the Mass in 2007, took place in 2012. The idea was to […]
In his general audience on May 20th, Pope Francis reminded listeners that “an essential characteristic of the family” is its “natural vocation to educate children so they may grow up to be responsible for themselves […]
Hardly two weeks have passed since a successful demonstration was held in Rome on June 20 in defense of the traditional family and its children, and the first contradictions are starting to crop up. As […]
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