Pray with the Pope
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
Pope Francis prays that educators may be credible witnesses, who see fraternity as the best path for helping those most in need.
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Pope Video: For volunteer organisations
December 5, 2022
Pope Francis highlights the value of volunteer non-profit organisations and encourages them to collaborate more among themselves.
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Pope Video: For children who suffer
November 4, 2022
Pope Francis asks Christians to pray for children who are suffering, especially those who are homeless, orphans, and victims of war.
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Pope Video: For a Church open to everyone
October 10, 2022
The Pope prays that the Church may live in an increasing atmosphere of synodality and be a community of solidarity, fraternity, and welcome.
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Pope Video: Abolition of the death penalty
September 5, 2022
For September 2022, Pope Francis says that "capital punishment offers no justice to victims, but rather encourages revenge".
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Freedom from addictions
April 7, 2020
In The Pope Video for April 2020, Francis warns about other forms of suffering during the Covid-19 crisis such as addictions and the dangers of virtual space
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Pray for pandemic to end
March 24, 2020
In a special edition of "The Pope Video", prompted by the global pandemic, Pope Francis asks everyone to pray for the sick and the suffering throughout the world
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Catholics in China
March 10, 2020
In The Pope Video for March 2020, Pope Francis asks us to pray that the Church in China may persevere in its faithfulness to the Gospel and grow in unity
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Hear the cries of migrants
February 11, 2020
In The Pope Video for February 2020, Pope Francis lends his voice to migrants and victims of human trafficking
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Promotion of world peace
January 7, 2020
In The Pope Video for January, Francis invites Christians, other believers and all men and women of good will to promote a world of justice and peace
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“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023 - Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice was shocked by what he learnt at a conference in Bangladesh, exploring the idea of a 'just wage' there.
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023 - 'Judge John O'Hagan, 1825-1890', on the life of a respected patriot, poet, scholar and lawyer, is among the most recent Messenger books.
Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ: RIP
January 21, 2023 - President Michael D. Higgins has led the tributes to Mícheál Mac Gréil SJ, the social justice activist and community campaigner who died on 21 January, aged 92.
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023 - "The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book The Law of Love.
Latest Podcasts
“Your clothes are stained with our blood”
January 24, 2023
Fifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023
Pope Benedict and the abuse scandals
January 19, 2023
Benedict XVI’s theological legacy
January 10, 2023
Latest Videos
Pope Video: For educators
January 11, 2023
Pope Video: For volunteer organisations
December 5, 2022
Jesuit vocations film – ‘Walking with Jesus Christ’
December 5, 2022
Pope Video: For children who suffer
November 4, 2022
Latest Books
Biography of a Jesuit-educated judge
January 23, 2023
‘The Mindful Our Father’ – New Messenger book
January 3, 2023
Disciples of courage
December 2, 2022
Maynooth College: Essays on dying and death
November 17, 2022
