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A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five others stood trial in Hong Kong on Monday for allegedly failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to assist people arrested in the mass anti-government protests in the city three years ago.

Facing opposition from both the Brazilian bishops and the National Association of Catholic Education, conservative Christian groups are pressuring President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers to legalize homeschooling.

Catholics around the world marked the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 25, and the Archdiocese of Bombay used the occasion to recommit itself to helping Tribal migrants within greater Mumbai.

In 1935, an aspiring painter and member of a prominent Jewish family in Turin by the name of Carlo Levi was sentenced to exile in Italy’s neglected southern region of Basilicata for his anti-fascist sentiments. Basilicata, at the time, was considered more or less Italy’s equivalent of Siberia, which is to say, a prison all by itself.

Addressing some 1000 young people of the “Shalom” Catholic Community in the Vatican, Pope Francis encourages them to keep their missionary charism alive as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of their Brazilian-born movement that aims to evangelize the young, by the young.

Pope Francis invites Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family to learn from the Holy Family, to embrace littleness and to have a massive impact by listening silently to God's voice, maintaining a strong personal prayer life, and living out synodality together.

At the conclusion of the Mass in the southern Italian city of Matera on Sunday morning, Pope Francis recalled that today the Church celebrates the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. May we welcome and assist them, he said, as they also can help our communities grow, and the Kingdom of God can be realized together with them.

At an international conference on refugee and migrant education sponsored by the Pontifical Gregorian University, Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, emphasizes the importance of working together to provide educational opportunities for migrants and refugees.

Giorgia Meloni is poised to become Italy’s first ever female prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two after victory in Sunday’s general election. Provisional results showed Meloni’s Fratelli di Italia party, which is allied with two other right-wing parties, should have a solid majority in both houses of parliament.

Demonstrations are continuing in Iran over the death of a young Iranian woman while in police custody. Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s so-called “morality police” for allegedly wearing a hijab improperly.

El Subsecretario de la Sección de Migrantes y Refugiados, padre Fabio Baggio, menciona la riqueza del mensaje del Papa Francisco para la Jornada del Migrante y Refugiado 2022: “una oportunidad de desarrollo económico, social, cultural”.

El cardenal portugués era archivista y bibliotecario de la Santa Iglesia Romana. Monseñor Angelo Vincenzo Zani, hasta ahora secretario de la antigua Congregación para la Educación Católica, ha sido llamado a sustituirlo en este cargo. Mientras que como secretario del Dicasterio para la Cultura y la Educación ha sido nombrado Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, profesor ordinario de Eclesiología y Comunidad Familiar en el Pontificio Instituto Teológico 'Juan Pablo II'.

Publicamos algunos extractos de la introducción del Papa al libro de Andrea Tornielli "Vida de Jesús" (Piemme). En el volumen, que llega a las librerías el martes 27 de septiembre, el director editorial de los medios de comunicación vaticanos cuenta la historia del Nazareno combinando los textos de los Evangelios en una sola narración, alternándolos con un intento personal de reconstruir con la imaginación, y con la ayuda de los historiadores, todo lo que los evangelistas no escribieron

La mañana de este lunes, 26 de septiembre, el Santo Padre recibió en audiencia a las participantes en el Capítulo general número 23, de la Congregación de las Hermanas Terciarias Capuchinas de la Sagrada Familia. A las religiosas el Pontífice las alentó a “ser siempre profecía de esa escuela del Evangelio que es para el mundo camino de salvación”.