#Anniversaries

Norway: 10 years after the Utoya massacre. Mgr. Eidsvig, “Violence and terror have been a clear attack on human dignity and Christian values”

Fr. Rattoballi remembers Paolo Borsellino: “A man of the Beatitudes”

The priest confessed the magistrate assassinated by the Sicilian  Mafia two days before the Via d’Amelio bombing. Marking the 29th…

L’Osservatore Romano celebrates its 160th anniversary. Monda: “We must find creative ways to evangelise keeping in step with the times”

“I read it every day and, when it doesn’t come out on Sundays, I feel that I am missing something”,…

Terrorism: terrorist attacks in Brussels five years ago. Sassoli (EU Parliament) and Michel (EU Council), a call to “remain united”

Council of Europe: visit by Card. Parolin via videoconference on 12 November. Virtual meeting with CoE authorities, ministers and Catholic NGOs

Rosario Livatino. Elena Valdetara Canale miraculously healed by his intercession: “A sign of God’s love but eternal life is the greatest miracle.”

The first-hand account by the woman bestowed with one of two alleged miracles attributed to the intercession of the young…

UK: Card. Nichols (primate) remembering Pope Benedict XVI’s visit. “He changed the perception of the Catholic Church in the country”

Pope Francis: “Examination of conscience” on migrants and on Libya’s hell

On the seventh anniversary of the visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa, Pope Francis called for an “examination of…

John Paul II: mgr. Gadecki (Polish Bishops) thanks Pope Francis for commemorating Karol Wojtyla

John Paul II. Msgr. Oder (postulator): “No concealment of abuse, he initiated the post-Council journey”

The priest who followed his canonization process remembers the Polish Pope one hundred years after his birth as “a shepherd…

John Paul II. Father Lombardi: “A mentor of the peoples, a shepherd of humanity”

Father Federico Lombardi’s recollection of John Paul II, of whom he followed the entire pontificate, first as a young editor…