This is the cover of the English edition of Pope Francis encyclical Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship, issued Oct. 4, 2020. The document offers path forward for U.S. Catholics, panelists at the recent Catholic Social Ministry Gathering said. (CNS photo/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) Feb. 11, 2021 Catholic News Service A Catholic panel analyzing a path forward during moments of strife or of social sin said the only way to move ahead as a society toward healing is to recognize the damage done to a person or communities, to lay the truth out for everyone to see. The Healing as Church & Nation: Remembering, Recognizing & Reimagining Common Good, a panel during the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, which took place online Feb. 6-9 this year, also looked at how Pope Francis teachings can help.
Jesuits continue efforts to prevent sexual abuse The Society of Jesus has spent nearly a decade rigorously training its members to heighten awareness of this crime against the vulnerable
At the end of 2020, the French-speaking province of the Jesuits received for the second time a community formation on sexual abuse. (Photo by ALESSIA GIULIANI/CPP/CIRIC)
The Society of Jesus has intensified efforts the past years to train its members around the world in sexual abuse prevention.
The 400 or so Jesuits of the French-speaking province, alone, recently spent two months in community formation on how to identity and combat such things as pedocriminality, sexual abuse and the abuse of power.
By Massimiliano Menichetti
Almost 12,000 hours of broadcasts in a single year, including radio commentaries, as well as news, liturgical and musical programmes. This is the identity of Vatican Radio, the radio station of the Holy See, established by Pope Pius XI, who entrusted it to the Society of Jesus, and which was built by Guglielmo Marconi ninety years ago. Today we broadcast in 41 languages and every day we bring the words of the Gospel and the voice of the Pope to the whole world.
This anniversary is particularly challenging for us. We are celebrating 90 years at a time when one of the greatest trials for all humanity is underway due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our mission has always been to leave no one unaccompanied, and to bring the hope of the Christian proclamation, the voice of the Pope to the world, and to relate the facts of the news in the light of the Gospel. This moment involves and challenges us further.
Published Feb 10, 2021 in Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx 4 mins
Discussion
Rend my heart, O’ God, Rend my heart.
These words came to me in prayer tonight, from somewhere, distant, distracted, after a long and dusty day, one of those days I’m just glad is over. Life on Zoom is exhausting.
Rend my heart? What does that even mean? I am a Jesuit Scholastic, a student of sorts, a seminarian, in a Catholic religious order; missioned to study philosophy at the Jesuit University in Guadalajara, Mexico, the third largest city in Mexico, about 350 miles south west of Mexico City. I should spend more time in prayer tonight but my eyes are burning, the dust surely and I just can’t keep them open.