Workcamp in Nicaragua
An adapted version of "A battle for the souls of the poor", an article that appeared in the Catholic Herald, 5 September 2003.
Argentina: development programs in Santo Tomé
For the past 16 years, a group of volunteers have been carrying out various programs of nutrition, hygiene and literacy in Santo Tomé, a city of 43,000 where 65% of the people are living under the poverty line.
Pope initiates a spiritual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Pompei
“On October 7,” said John Paul II, “I count on going, please God, to the Shrine of Pompei. It will be a particularly significant moment in the Year of the Rosary, inaugurated last 16 October with the signing in St Peter's Square of my Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae.”
Archbishop Conti celebrates first feast-day Mass of St Josemaría
On the evening of Thursday June 26, at St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral in Glasgow, Archbishop Mario Conti celebrated the first ever feast day Mass of the newly canonised Saint Josemaria Escriva.
A medical clinic in Mexico
Every Sunday at the crack of dawn, scores of indigenous Mazahuas and Otomíes gather at the old hacienda of San José de Toshi to receive medical treatment, participate in a training workshop, pick up a food ration or attend a Christian doctrine class.