A Catholic church in Kerala was recently transformed into a makeshift hospital to help elderly and bedridden people participate in religious ser-vices during the Lent. The St Joseph’ Church parish in North Chalakudy under the Irinjala-kuda diocese on March 15 brought to the church some 90 elderly people to honor and recognize them. They included 15 bedridden and three on wheelchairs.
Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”
