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Catholic News Service
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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Catholic News Service
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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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Meeting hundreds of Nigerian Catholics who live, work and study in Rome, Pope Francis asked them to make their Rome parishes places where cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences are respected and shared.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News
The Holy Spirit is like a line prompter at a theater, behind the scenes and constantly whispering to Christians the words of Jesus, said the preacher of the papal household.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in June to meet with Vladimir Putin, the director of the Holy See press office said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
“War is always a defeat,” Pope Francis said, urging people at his general audience to pray that leaders in war-torn nations would have the courage to negotiate for peace.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis’ envoy for peace in Ukraine asked his fellow bishops and all Catholics in Italy to continue their prayers for peace in Ukraine and in the Holy Land, but also to make those prayers concrete through acts of solidarity.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Asked to reminisce about his life and where he was at key moments in history, the 87-year-old Pope Francis obliged, but also used the opportunity to talk about the lessons the events hold today and his hope for the future.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Colleges, News, Vatican, World News
At the request of Pope Francis, three Jesuit-run institutions of higher learning in Rome — the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute — will formally become one university in May.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis has decided that some of the most controversial issues raised at the first assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will be examined by study groups that will work beyond the synod’s final assembly in October.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
A pope’s ministry is meant to last his lifetime, Pope Francis said, and, at least until now, he has not considered resigning.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Christians should pray for the grace to look at others with the same mercy and care with which Jesus looks at them, Pope Francis said.
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