Cardinal Fernández Artime: From Pope Francis, the call to awaken the world

Cardinal Fernández Artime: From Pope Francis, the call to awaken the world

During the eighth Mass of the Novemdiales in memory of Pope Francis, the Cardinal and former Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life invites the faithful to turn the apostles' enthusiasm, sparked by the appearance of the Risen Christ, into a "life program." Their "wonder," in contrast to "bewilderment" and "discouragement," becomes a model for those today who are in "great need of encounter…

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Daniel Ibáñez Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime incenses the altar at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025. Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime celebrated the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on Saturday. Francis urged ‘heart and spirit’ for ‘the poorest’ among us, the cardinal said.

Pope Francis urged ‘heart and spirit’ for ‘the poorest’ among us, Cardinal Artime says

Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime incenses the altar at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 3, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis desired that consecrated Catholic men and women possess "a heart and a spirit pure and free enough" to love and serve the least among us, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime said at the eighth Novendiales Mass on Saturday.…

Pope Francis urged 'heart and spirit' for 'the poorest' among us, Cardinal Artime says

Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime incenses the altar at the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, May 3, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 3, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis desired that consecrated Catholic men and women possess "a heart and a spirit pure and free enough" to love and serve the least among us, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime said at the eighth Novendiales Mass on Saturday.…

Pope Francis encouraged young people in Mexico to "make a scene" against "the ugly things in the world" in a previously unreleased video released Sunday by the Vatican and recorded for a music festival in 2024, a year before his death. "I know that you are gathered in the Zócalo. And you are gathered to receive and to give. You are not gathered to be silent, but to make a scene, to move with joy, to receive a message and transmit a message," the…

Ángel Fernández Artime has been the only Spanish cardinal who presided over a Mass, the eighth, of the so-called Novendials, or novenarius, dedicated to the memory of Pope Francis, of whom he has been a close collaborator since ancient times, when the Asturian (Luanco, 1960), was superior of the Salesians in Argentina in the years when Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires. In 2023 Francis created him a cardinal and named him "number two" of …