New Apostolic Letter of Pope Francis Pope Francis highlights the indispensable role catechists fulfil in teaching the Good News of Jesus Christ. Already in the New Testament we find men and women helping the Apostle Paul to communicate the Good News. It is truly an ”˜ancient ministry' and one that has continued throughout the centuries to our present day. Recognising the work of catechists around the world, in this Apostolic Letter Pope Francis formally establishes the ”˜Ministry of the Catechist'...

Apostolic Letter on the Liturgical Formation of the People of God Pope Francis urges Catholics to value the liturgical reform borne out of Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. He calls for a "serious and dynamic liturgical formation" for all. Without a proper understanding, the celebration can easily fall “into a preoccupation with the exterior (more or less refined) or into a concern only for rubrics (more or less rigid)." Pope Francis adds: “With this letter I simply want to invite the whole Church to rediscover, to safeguard, and to live the truth and power of the Christian celebration. I want the beauty of the Christian celebration and its necessary consequences for the life of the Church not to be spoiled by a superficial and foreshortened understanding of its value or, worse yet, by its being exploited in service of some ideological vision, no matter what the hue.”..

DILEXIT NOS ENCYCLICAL LETTER ON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVE OF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRIST. POPE FRANCIS ..