Mission
Hot Topics
Hate crimes against Christians in Europe are on the rise: these are the facts
Vatican to Host Global Summit on Children’s Rights: A Bold Call to Action
Israeli victims of Hamas attacks meet the Pope
Pope Francis announces when Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized
Church is not against Iran’s government, Pope tells Muslims at Vatican
What are the charisms of the Holy Spirit? This is the Pope’s answer
USA: bishops’ assembly: synodality, new Bible and beatification causes
Swiss Catholic Church faces a record exodus of desertions
This is the date and time when the Vatican Christmas tree will be lit 2024
‘Greatest manuscript discovery of modern times’ will return to the U.S. for the first time in almost a decade
Día

julio 2nd, 2024

Elvin Joseph, a resident of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan Photo: The Christian Post

Pope Francis

Pope Francis clarifies: anointing of the sick is not for those who are going to die

In The Pope Video for July, Pope Francis lifts up his prayer that the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick might become more and more a “visible sign of compassion and hope.” In his video message the Pope insists that it “is not a sacrament only for those who are at the point of death,” but states that it “is one of the ‘sacraments of healing,’ of ‘restoration,’ that heals the spirit.”