by sjchurchadmin | Dec 5, 2014 | Vatican Corner
On November 31, 2014 Pope Francis concluded a three-day trip to the cities of Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey. The trip was primarily to meet again with Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of over 250 million Orthodox Christians, whose Church broke away from...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 29, 2014 | Vatican Corner
In Early October 2014, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, the head of the department that distributes charity on behalf of the Pope, was talking to Franco a homeless man from Sardinia and found out that it was his 50th birthday. The man had been living on...
by sjchurchadmin | Nov 23, 2014 | Vatican Corner
Vatican Corner Practically every continent has some version of Thanksgiving, from Africa’s Kwanzaa, India’s Pongal to China’s August Moon Festival. Each of these cultures celebrates the end of the harvest with a shared feast of the...
