by Gregory Galvan | Dec 23, 2019 | Vatican Corner
On the first day of Advent on Dec. 1, 2019, Pope Francis traveled to the Italian town of Greccio – where St. Francis of Assisi in the year 1223 created the first nativity scene. Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter on the meaning and importance of nativity scenes,...
by Gregory Galvan | Dec 23, 2019 | Vatican Corner
Telling about when he was a young Jesuit, Pope Francis In the book “El Jesuita”, published in 2010, said that “over time, I felt the desire to go as a missionary to Japan, where the Jesuits have always carried out a very important work.” In 1549 Jesuit missionary St....
by sjcpost | Sep 30, 2019 | Vatican Corner
The Amazonian synod entitled “New paths for the Church and for an integral ecology”, is the name of the upcoming meeting of bishops that is to be held at the Vatican from October 6th through 27th, 2019. The gigantic 2,700,000 square miles Amazon rainforest contains...
by sjcpost | Sep 20, 2019 | Vatican Corner
The 140th anniversary of the Apparition at Knock, Ireland was on August 21, 2019. That is where the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. John the Baptist and Christ (as the Lamb of God) appeared to 15 local townspeople on the parish church’s gable wall. The shrine...
by Gregory Galvan | Sep 14, 2019 | Vatican Corner
Pope Francis had said that when he became Pope he didn’t want to travel very much because it was not in his nature. But a’er his first trip, a refugee camp, he realized the importance of his fatherly encounters where he can meet the people, hear their...
by Gregory Galvan | Aug 24, 2019 | Vatican Corner
In 2013 when Pope Francis was in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day, he visited a hospital run by the Fraternity of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Providence of God. He asked the Fraternity if they had members in the Amazon. The reply was “no” and Francis simply...
