PAPAL APPEAL: Pope Benedict appeals to the international community
to step up its aid to those affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa region and
says Church aid representatives are meeting this week to discuss how they can increase
their own relief efforts for the region..... GO AND PROCLAIM: We
talk to an official from the Society for the Propaganda of the Faith about the upcoming
World Mission Sunday whose theme this year is “As the Father has sent me, so I send
you.” ... BETWEEN HEAVEN AND MIRTH: That’s the title of a new book
by a prize-winning Jesuit author who invites readers to rediscover the importance
of humour and laughter in our daily lives and reflects on why joy is the inevitable
result of faith......