Commenting on the deaths of 13 young mothers at government-run sterilization camps in India’s central Chhattisgarh State on Nov. 12, Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu said the guilty should be punished, but “the systemic faults behind this tragedy must be exposed and corrected.” • Drawing on the teachings of Pope Francis, the theme of the 2015 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering on Feb. 7 to 10 in Washington, D.C., will be “To Go Forth: Encountering Christ in the Heart of the World.” • Work is set to begin on Nov. 17 for the addition of three showers, commissioned by Pope Francis, for use by homeless people in an existing lavatory block for tourists in the area under St. Peter’s colonnades. • Catholic and Muslim leaders and scholars, concluding a forum at the Vatican on Nov. 13, urged dialogue to promote greater respect and understanding and condemned all acts of violence committed in the name of religion. • Archbishop Santiago Garcia Aracil of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain, has rejected as “libelous” claims in a letter from 50 unnamed clergy to the papal nuncio, accusing him of living an “excessive, ostentatious, scandalous and undesirable” lifestyle.
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Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering humanitarian crises as he opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve.
‘If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever!’
Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., invites listeners in his Christmas Eve homily to approach the manger with renewed awe and openness.
A Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, by Father Terrance Klein