On Sunday, October 10, 2021, Pope Francis opened the two-year process for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. The Synod will seek to implement more fully the Second Vatical Council's call for communion and participation of all in the mission of the Church in the 21st century. This video gives an overview of Pope Francis' process of Synodality and presents a way of involving the entire people of God into the Church's life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAaOHEpuTmw“Rejoice and be Glad!” is the title of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Holiness in Everyday Life which was proclaimed in 2018. This video presents the third section of the Apostolic Exhortation: The Beatitudes since they are a portrait of our Lord himself: “Seeing and acting with mercy.”
On October 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis, Pope Francis published an Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God for his Creatures). This video (Part 1) focuses on the introduction and the first two sections of the document where Pope Francis explains current climate science, addresses the dangers of climate denial, and explores how abuse of power and how a short-sighted focus on progress and growth have created the current climate crisis.
On October 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis, Pope Francis published an Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God for his Creatures). This video (Part 2) focuses on sections 3 to 5 where Pope Francis summarizes why we have not made the necessary changes need to address the climate crisis at an international level and makes suggestions to improve outcomes for the future. He also urges development of a new procedure for decision-making and legitimizing those decisions, hoping that the upcoming COP 28 conference will bring binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: efficient, obligatory, and readily monitored.
On October 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis, Pope Francis published an Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God for his Creatures). This video (Part 3) focuses on section 6 (the last section) where Pope Francis explains that humans must remember that we are part of nature, not a separate entity. He encourages us to look to Jesus as a model of experiencing awe in creations and explains how individual actions change culture and make a long-term and lasting impact. The final line of the Exhortation warns us of what happens when we forget our place in the web of life.
This video is a summary of Pope Francis' Encyclical Fratelli Tutti published October 3, 2020. Fratelli Tutti is a “Social Encyclical” which aims to promote a universal aspiration toward fraternity and social friendship. In the background of the Encyclical is the Covid-19 pandemic. The global health emergency has helped demonstrate that “no one can face life in isolation” and that the time has truly come to “dream, then, as a single human family” in which we are “Brothers and Sisters all”.
This video explains the theology of Mission according to Pope Francis. The script is from the Introduction of the Orbis book: Go Forth edited by William Gregory. Pope Francis speaks clearly regarding his desire for the Church: I would like a more missionary church, one that is not staid. This beautiful church that makes progress. In this video he calls for the church's missionary transformation through pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are. 'Mere administration' cannot longer be enough'
Fr. Greg Boyle is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program. . . . This video is his homily of 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 2025 entitled "Love Will Win."
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