Francisco, Chile: “Is all this for me, or is it meant to be shared?”
At the age of 40, Francisco (Chile) paused to reflect on his life, pondering whether his life experience and everything he had received was meant to be kept for himself or shared with others. The question led him to discover a path of service and the conviction that every step he had taken had prepared him for the next one.
“Dilexi te,” Pope Leo XIV’s First Apostolic Exhortation
This letter to all Christians is the continuation of a project begun by Pope Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, on the theme of service to the poor, in whose faces we see “the suffering of the innocent, and therefore the suffering of Christ himself.”
“No fragment of our existence is foreign to Him”
In his 8 October general audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his catechetical cycle on Jesus Christ, our hope, speaking about the Resurrection.
BeDoCare 2025: Africa’s Future Begins with Care
The third edition of Be Do Care, at Strathmore University (Nairobi, Kenya) brought together leaders from across the continent to explore how education, work, and solidarity can transform Africa, inspired by the Christian vision of the human person.
Pope's Prayer Intention for October 2025
Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity. (Leo XIV)
Monthly Intention
The Prelate is suggesting that the faithful and friends of Opus Dei pray for this intention in a special way, from 2 October 2025 to 2 October 2026.
Monthly intention
The Prelate is suggesting that the faithful and friends of Opus Dei pray for this intention in a special way, from 2 October 2025 to 2 October 2026.
“Do not be afraid to show your wounds healed by mercy”
In his 1 October general audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his catechetical cycle on Jesus Christ, our hope, speaking about the Resurrection.
2 October 1928: “The history of the mercies of God”
On 2 October 1928, St. Josemaría Escrivá saw what God was asking of him: to remind women and men that holiness is possible in the middle of ordinary life. That message continues to “light up the pathways of the earth” nearly a century later.
A Fire that Spreads (Part 3)
"A Christian can never turn a blind eye to a neighbour's needs. ...Not only should we be acutely conscious personally of our neighbour's material needs, but we als try to get others to be equally concerned, so that they don't act selfishly and turn their backs on sorrow, loneliness and misfortune." (Don Alvaro del Portillo, 9th January 1993)