Philippine diocese launches app to link Covid-19 patients with priests

A diocese in the Philippines has launched an application, E-Pray, for spiritual accompaniment during Covid-19 isolation. E-Pray is a free web application where patients can type in their contact details so that priests can get in touch with them, reported ucanews.com. Novaliches Diocese in Manila said the app was developed by its social communications ministry in response to a... Read More

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March 25, 2021

Remember your past with gratitude, pope tells Filipino priests

Pope Francis asked Filipino priests doing graduate studies in Rome not to think of their time in the city and their residence at the Pontifical Filipino College as a pause disconnected from their “real” lives. Do not “yearn for the parishes you once served or dream about the ‘prestigious’ positions your bishop will give you on your return,” the pope told the student... Read More

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March 20, 2021

Vatican ends practice of priests celebrating Mass alone in St Peter’s

The Vatican is putting an end to the practice of priests going into St Peter’s Basilica early every morning to celebrate their own Mass at a side altar with just an altar server. Concelebrated Masses still are permitted, as are Masses in the chapels in the grotto of the basilica for pilgrim groups that arrive with a priest or... Read More

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March 19, 2021

Priests must be welcoming fathers like St Joseph, pope says

Like St Joseph who had other plans for his life, but lovingly embraced his role as Jesus’ foster father, a priest assigned to a new parish cannot impose his own ways on that community, Pope Francis said. At times, even with the best intentions, priests can “sometimes end up getting lost” and have a “tendency to ‘grab’... Read More

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January 9, 2021

Covid-19 claims lives of over 200 priests in Italy since start of pandemic

Of the more than 76,000 people known to have died of Covid-19 in Italy the past 11 months, more than 200 were priests, according to the Catholic newspaper, Avvenire. Already four priests have died since the start of 2021, the newspaper said on 6th January, adding that the cumulative toll amounts to about one death every one... Read More

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December 31, 2020

Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

Attacked because of their faith, killed in a robbery, murdered in a general climate of violence or struck down by someone with obvious mental difficulties, the 20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel, said Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency. Presenting its annual list of missionaries killed during the... Read More

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October 4, 2020

Mexican archdiocese says phony priests proliferate during pandemic

A Mexican archdiocese has disavowed people posing as priests during the coronavirus pandemic. The Archdiocese of Toluca, west of Mexico City, said the priests were not in proper standing, but had targeted people wanting to celebrate Mass in their homes and receive sacraments there or at funeral parlours, the newspaper El Sol de Toluca reported. The newspaper... Read More

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