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1 day ago | 
ncronline.org | Inés San Martín |Michael Sean Winters
A drone view shows the Pedro Bidegain stadium, home of San Lorenzo de Almagro, Pope Francis' hometown soccer team, in Buenos Aires April 21, 2025, following the death of the 88-year-old pontiff. (OSV News/Reuters/Matias Baglietto) Before he was Pope Francis, the first pope from the Americas, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio — a kid from Buenos Aires cheering for San Lorenzo, going to live games with his dad on Sundays.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
onefamilyinmission.org | Inés San Martín
Today, as the Church celebrates World Mission Sunday, Pope Francis canonized several men and women in St. Peter’s Square, including Father Giuseppe Allamano, the founder of the Consolata Missionaries who first suggested to the Pope having a day of reflection and giving for the missionary Church. His homily was a meditation on the essence of Christian mission: service, love, and humility, qualities exemplified by the lives of the newly canonized saints.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
onefamilyinmission.org | Inés San Martín
Father Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and present Catholic Chaplain of Columbia University, brings extensive experience and a dynamic vision to TPMS USA. His background in pastoral work, bioethics, youth ministry, and missionary activity aligns perfectly with TPMS’s mission to support the global Church’s missionary efforts.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
onefamilyinmission.org | Inés San Martín
In the heart of Nigeria’s turbulence, where echoes of violence reverberate and where Christians are often the target of violent attacks, such as the massacre perpetrated on Christmas Even in Plateau State, stands a beacon of hope and unwavering faith – Father Solomon Patrick Zaku, the National Director of The Pontifical Mission Societies Nigeria (TPMS) since 2020.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
vaticannews.va | Inés San Martín
By Inés San Martín As the season of giving approaches, the US Catholic Church's annual giving day, #iGiveCatholic, is set to make a groundbreaking stride. This year, for the first time, The Pontifical Mission Societies USA will participate in the initiative, marking an expansion of #iGiveCatholic's impact from a national to a global scale. Launched in 2015 in the Archdiocese of New Orleans under the leadership of Archbishop Gregory M.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
oursundayvisitor.com | Inés San Martín
This article was originally published in The Priest magazine, a publication of OSV. World Mission Sunday will be celebrated Oct. 22. It is the one Sunday of the year when the Mass is celebrated exclusively for missionary activity. Donations collected at worldwide Masses this Sunday go, in their entirety, to support churches, hospitals, schools and vocations where the Church is new, young or poor.
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Apr 5, 2023 | 
angelusenespanol.com | Inés San Martín |Carol Glatz
Lejos de buscar un acercamiento con la Iglesia Católica e intentar recomponer las “suspendidas” relaciones diplomáticas con el Vaticano, esta Semana Santa se ha convertido en otra excusa para que el gobierno de Daniel Ortega expulse del país a sacerdotes y reprima manifestaciones de fe. La última víctima de la represión del régimen ha sido el cura de origen panameño Donaciano Alarcón, miembro de la orden de los claretianos.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John L. Allen, Jr. |Inés San Martín
ROME – Though it was, in a sense, 530 years in the making, required two separate departments of the Roman Curia to address, and came a full eight months after demands burst into full public view during a high-profile papal trip to the New World, Thursday’s repudiation of the “Doctrine of Discovery” by the Vatican may turn out to have been the easy part. To be clear, what the Vatican formally disowned yesterday is a legal and political concept, not a theological tenet.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
irishcatholic.com | Inés San Martín
Pope Francis and Fr Pedro Opeka, founder of the Akamasoa Community of Good Friends, attend a meeting with members of the community in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2019. It is often said that we are our truest selves when we are happy, comfortable and surrounded by those we love and trust. During each of the nearly 30 trips I made with Pope Francis, there was always a memorable moment when his true self would come out to play. Early on, we would recognise…
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Justin Mclellan |Joy Zanghi |Inés San Martín
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Being an apostle does not mean climbing up the church's hierarchy to look down on others but humbling oneself in a spirit of service, Pope Francis said. During his general audience in St. Peter's Square March 15, the pope explained that apostleship as understood by the Second Vatican Council produces an equality -- rooted in service -- among laypeople, consecrated religious, priests and bishops. "Who has more dignity in the church? The bishop? The priest?
