peripheries

Pope Francis was elected March 13, 2013, becoming the first pope born in the Americas and first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years.

Cardinal Gregory said Pope Francis has made it “totally uncomfortable to take great comfort in any one dimension of the church’s social teaching.”

A Vatican office sent dozens of theologians and pastoral workers to refugee camps, prisons, shelters, street corners and markets in 40 cities and towns on every continent to listen to the faith experiences and, especially, the faith questions of people often tossed aside or ignored by society and even the Catholic Church.

The Synod of Bishops’ office has received the summaries from more than 100 of the world’s 114 bishops’ conferences, “and they are still arriving.”

A lawyer, schoolteacher and entrepreneur, Douglas Tsoi, believes that “prosperity is really about sharing, collaboration and generosity.”

“Jacques’ agony remained until his execution in the early morning of Oct. 1, 1957. So did his joy.”

“‘In the eyes of the world,’ Father Steve told us, ‘This child means nothing. But in the eyes of God and of our Church, this child is precious and valued.'”