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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News
Priests are called to be “a true icon of Jesus,” drawing closer to God the father by devoting their lives to the care of all God’s children, Pope Francis wrote.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
In a world filled with “bellicose rhetoric,” religious leaders must make extra efforts to speak of peace and to nurture every action and attitude that lessens tensions and increases dialogue, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
While giving each person his or her due is fundamental for justice, the virtue of justice is not concentrated on the individual in isolation but on ensuring the common good of all, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis held up a well-thumbed, camouflage-covered pocket edition of the New Testament and Psalms and a small fabric pouch containing a rosary.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Easter, News, Vatican, World News
Like the women disciples who discovered Jesus had risen from the dead and ran to tell the others, Christians should be filled with such joy at Easter that they cannot help sharing it with others, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Easter is a promise that no matter how dark the world may seem and no matter how heavy the burdens one carries, victory belongs to the Risen Christ and all who believe in him, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
The pope celebrated the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 28 at the women’s prison under a tent set up outside.
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Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
As a statue of Jesus bearing his cross is carried through the streets of Sonsonate, El Salvador, on Good Friday, Pope Francis asked Catholics to respond to Jesus’ love with contemplation and a renewal of their love for God and for their needy neighbors.
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Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
Presiding over the chrism Mass March 28 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis ended his lengthy homily by thanking the priests present and, by extension, those around the world.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
Contemplating Christ’s passion should inspire Christians to be more patient in the face of their own suffering and trials, Pope Francis said.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is “so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so little by the Resurrection.”
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Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum, the head of the Vatican press office said.
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