“There is a different spirit” among the Gaza Strip’s Catholics, said Sami El-Yousef, CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, who accompanied Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa in his visit to the territory (Encyclopaedia Britannica article). “In other visits usually the first thing people say is if they have a chance they would leave Gaza, but we did not hear that this time.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and