The first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, with 14 other blessed will be canonized, according to the College of Cardinals who formalized the approval in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace for an Ordinary Public Consistory on Monday morning.
Pope Francis will lead at an Ordinary Public Consistory on July 1, when Cardinals who are in Rome are set to approve the canonization of 15 Blesseds, according to Vatican News.
Pope Francis held a private audience with Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore, around two months ahead of his apostolic visit to the Southeast Asian nation.
Pope said, "We must not miss the opportunity to think and act in a new way, with mind, heart and hands .. to direct innovation toward a configuration centred on the primacy of human dignity."
Prime Minister Modi who is on a two-day visit to Rome for the G7 Summit at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, met the Pope on June 14 at the Vatican.
The Vatican released the official logos and mottos for the Holy Father’s Apostolic Journey to Asia on September 2 to 13, 2024, which is his longest-ever journey with the motto ‘Faith - Fraternity – Compassion’.
Father Ulep urged the audience to contemplate the societal frameworks that enable the epidemic of poverty-related deaths and to embrace the discomfort they cause.
“Indonesian independence was not a gift from the colonialists, but the result of a long struggle involving all components of the nation, involving all ethnic groups and all religious adherents,” said Cardinal Suharyo.
In a press note on April 12, he said, “Pope Francis' official confirmation of the much-awaited visit to Timor-Leste fills the President of the Republic and all the people of Timor-Leste with joy.”
The Japan Bible Society (JBS) presented its latest ecumenical translation of the Bible to Pope Francis on April 10, 2024, during the general audience in the Vatican.
Pope Francis said that with the throwaway culture, there is "a less visible but extremely insidious factor that erodes the value of the disabled in the eyes of society and their own eyes."
"Without justice, the law of the prevalence of the strong over the weak is entrenched. The righteous person is upright, simple and straightforward, does not wear masks and speaks the truth," said the Holy Father.
Pope referred to the woman’s question as she anxiously wondered after the burial of Jesus: Who will roll away the stone from the tomb? Then, looking up, they see that it has already been rolled back.
The papal “visit to Indonesia, Singapore, Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea has now been moved to early September,” reported America, a monthly Catholic magazine published by the Jesuits of the United States.
