evangelisation

Amid coronavirus plague, 14 Italian missionaries die in a month

Coronavirus: 14 Italian missionaries from single community die within a month, first bishop also passes away

Dublin archdiocese looks for new lay ministries to connect beyond the Church, ensure it 'thrives into the future'

Dublin archdiocese looks for new lay ministries to connect beyond the Church, ensure it “thrives into the future”

Bologna cardinal Matteo Zuppi

Bologna cardinal rails against Church “prophets of calamities who confuse conversion with relativism”

'Querida Amazonia' - Polish Bishops' President thanks Pope for 'loud cry of Church for rights of poor'

‘Querida Amazonia’: Polish Bishops’ President thanks Pope for “loud cry of Church for rights of poor”

Pope sends future Vatican diplomats on mission 'gap year'

“Get your hands dirty in the frontier Churches”: Pope sends future Vatican diplomats on mission ‘gap year’

Pope Francis caresses the belly of a pregnant woman February 10 in an audience with the Knights of Colombus

Francis encourages Catholics to “make ourselves one with all, starting with the last, the excluded, the discarded”

Participants in the second day of the synodal path assembly in Frankfurt

(Small) Win for women on German ‘synodal path’: assembly votes to make resolutions dependent on female majority

Pope Francis waves to onlookers

Pope warns: “The Gospel will not go forward with boring, bitter evangelisers”

Pope Francis speaks Saturday January 25 to judges of the Roman Rota

Francis looks to strengthen role of married couples to cover lack of priests

Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland), Alphonsus Cullinan

Irish bishop warns of “new culture trying to undo truths of Christianity from the ground up”

Belgian missionary murdered in South Africa, Jef Hollanders

Belgian missionary murdered in South Africa remembered as “full of enthusiasm, life and dedication”

A Catholic mission in Venezuela

Vatican agency denounces “globalisation of violence” against missionaries: 29 killed worldwide in 2019

Pope Francis December 31 at Vespers and the Te Deum in St. Peter's Basilica

Pope urges “time for others”, “dialogue”: “To listen is already an act of love!”

Pope Francis embraces a man

Welcome and mercy, touchstones of the Pope’s 2019

A Spanish-speaking congregation at Mass (stock)

Tens of thousands of Spanish laypeople denounce Church’s “excessive clericalism”, “high degree of paternalism”

Italian priest kidnapped in Niger Pierluigi Maccalli

Italian Church holds candle for priest missionary kidnapped in Niger… fifteen months on

Pope Francis gives December 21 his traditional Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia

Pope urges Roman Curia, Church “to change in order to be faithful”

Francis December 20 with students at a Roman high school

Francis takes aim (again) at proselytism: “We’re not in the time of the Crusades”

Cardinal Tagle embraces Pope Francis

New ‘Red Pope’ wants more women, youth in Church leadership