Commission to study the question of the diaconate for women

We are deeply grateful to Pope Francis for this response to the suggestion of a Commission made during the May audience with the worldwide leaders of women’s religious congregations. The establishment of this Commission is an opportunity for all to study the role of women deacons in the early church’s life and ministry and to […]

Letter to the Franciscan youth for World Youth Day 2016

MESSAGES| July 20, 2016 |  Dear young Franciscans all over the world, may the Lord give you peace! Our Seraphic Brother Saint Francis showed himself to be a true lover of God’s mercy. Finding himself deeply loved by the “Father of Mercies” (Cf. 2 COR 1.3) while still in his youth, the poor man of Assisi […]

Attentat de Nice: tristesse et proximité du pape pour le peuple français

MESSAGES|16/07/2016 | Le pape François exprime sa « profonde tristesse » et sa proximité au peuple français, après l’attentat perpétré à Nice, qui a fait au moins 84 victimes, au soir du 14 juillet 2016. Dans un télégramme envoyé le lendemain à l’évêque de Nice, Mgr André Marceau, par le cardinal Secrétaire d’Etat Pietro Parolin, […]

Bruno Rampazzo è il nuovo Superiore Generale dei Rogazionisti

COMUNICATO STAMPA – La Congregazione dei Rogazionisti, nel suo XII Capitolo Generale, il 21 luglio 2016 ha eletto l’11° successore di Padre Annibale Maria Di Francia, nella persona di P. Bruno Rampazzo, di 59 anni, di Campodoro di Padova, già Vicario Generale nel sessennio precedente. L’assemblea capitolare, si era aperta il 5 luglio, con la […]