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(Vatican Radio) St. Peter’s Cricket Club, also known as the Vatican XI, travels to Fatima after Easter for an interfaith tournament that includes Muslim, Hindu and Jewish teams from Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.St Peter’s third ‘Light of Faith’ tour takes place just ahead of Pope Francis' visit to Fatima to mark the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions there. The Pope will make a pilgrimage to the Portuguese town on May 12th and 13th.St. Peter’s Cricket Club, made up of priests and seminarians of different nationalities studying for the priesthood in Rome, will travel to Lisbon on Wednesday, 19th April, and will spend the day at the shrine in Fatima. During their four day tour, players will be hosted by the municipal council and people of Miranda do Corvo, near the historic university city of Coimbra.One of the goals of the 'Vatican' Cricket Club, established in 2013 under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Cultur...
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2017 / 07:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Church this week reflects on Jesus’ crucifixion and death, Pope Francis said that it is the cross that gives us hope, and urged faithful to enter into the mystery of Christ’s death by contemplating the joy that comes from sacrifice.“During these days, days of love, let us be enveloped by the mystery of Jesus who, like a grain of wheat, in dying gives us life. He is the seed of our hope,” the Pope said April 12.“Let us contemplate the Crucified Christ, the source of hope. Little by little we realize that hope with Jesus is learning to see, indeed right now, the plant in the seed, Easter in the cross, life in death.”Speaking during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Francis told pilgrims he was giving them some homework. He instructed them when they get home to stop in front the crucifix, look at Jesus and tell him: “With you, I can always hope. You are my hop...
By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican stamp and coin office hasbig plans for early May: the release of stamps marking retired Pope BenedictXVI's 90th birthday and importantevents in the life of the church spanning almost 2,000 years.The Philatelic and Numismatic Office said the stamp sheetcelebrating Pope Benedict's April 16 birthday was designed to "offer ouraffectionate tribute to him."Designed by the artist Daniela Longo, the sheet features adrawing of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict embracing, while the actual stampsshow the retired pope praying his rosary.Separate 95 euro-cent stamps will be released to mark the1,950th anniversary of the martyrdoms in the year 67 of Sts. Peter and Paul,founders of the church in Rome.Information announcing the stamps' release noted,"Peter was crucified upside down and Paul decapitated, a distinctionreserved to Roman citizens."The stamps feature close-ups of their faces and symbolsassociated with them. For St. Peter, a rooster as a reminder of his ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The cross, loving service andhumble sacrifice are the only way to overcome evil and give hope to the world,Pope Francis said.Those who love their own lives and always hunger for moreare the losers, the pope said at his weekly general audience April 12.Rather, those who readily serve others and "liveGod's way" are the winners, who "save themselves and others, becomingseeds of hope for the world," he said.This seemingly illogical process is the source andstrength of Christian hope, Pope Francis said, continuing his series of talkson the unique nature of this hope.Jesus explains the new kind of hope he offers in a versefrom the Gospel according of St. John when he says, "unless a grain ofwheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if itdies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoeverhates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life."It is only when a seed spli...
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Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation now has its first state Catholic college. The State Catholic Institute (STAKatN) opened on 6 April in Pontianak, the capital of the West Kalimantan province. Originally founded in 2006 as the Santo Agustinus Pastoral Institute, the new government-run educational institution began the long process of state accreditation in 2010, which recently ended with official approval from the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Andreas, a local Catholic, spoke to AsiaNews noting that the milestone was achieved due to the efforts of important local Catholic figures, such as the provincial governor, the bishop and priests. Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saiffudin, West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis M H, Archbishop Agustinus Agus of Pontianak took part in the opening ceremony. Arch. Agus invited all former students to adhere to the Church's mission in the province, so that Catholic education can remain ...
