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December 13, 2014

Destroy hatred, not enemies, to bring peace, papal preacher says

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa

VATICAN CITY - Peace does not come from wiping out enemies, it comes from destroying all hatred with prayer, dialogue and friendship, including in the Church and within the Roman Curia, said the preacher of the papal household.

Published in Vatican
July 16, 2014

Jesus would have been a great 'fit' on TV

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa

VATICAN CITY - The Gospel is made for television and Jesus Christ would have been a perfect on-air evangelist, said the papal preacher.

Published in International
December 9, 2011

Prayer, not activism, is key to evangelization, preacher tells pope

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa preaches to the pope and top Vatican officials on the Fridays of Advent and Lent.

VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church's project of "new evangelization" faces two dangers: people thinking others will do the work and people so fired up to preach the Gospel, they forget to pray, said the preacher of the papal household.

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who preaches to the pope and top Vatican officials on the Fridays of Advent and Lent, dedicated his December 2011 series to lessons the church can learn from its own history of evangelization efforts.

Published in Vatican