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Cindy Wooden

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Take off your slippers, go out, share the faith, pope says

January 11, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The world needs Christians who do not “stay in their slippers on the couch,” but get out and share the Gospel, especially through acts of charity, Pope Francis told members of an Italian fraternity that promotes a spectacular devotion to St. Rose of Viterbo.

Faith is a gift to celebrate, pope says as he baptizes babies

January 8, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

In the Sistine Chapel, where popes are elected, Pope Francis baptized 16 infants, who, he said, “give us the witness of how to receive the faith: with innocence and with an open heart.”

Vatican to publish ‘private’ homilies of late Pope Benedict

December 30, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

The Vatican publishing house announced it will release a book of some 130 homilies given by the late Pope Benedict XVI at private Sunday Masses — 30 given while he was pope and more than 100 given to members of his household once he retired.

Pope meets with U.S. Cardinal Burke

December 29, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a former top Vatican official, met privately with Pope Francis Dec. 29, about a month after reports that Pope Francis wanted to stop giving him a monthly salary and would ask him to pay the market rate for his Vatican apartment.

The pope’s 2023: A year of health challenges, travel and the synod

December 29, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis’ 2023 was a year of important trips made or postponed, a predecessor’s funeral and his own 10th anniversary as pope, a call to the world to act on climate change and a call to the Catholic Church to strengthen its mission by learning “synodality.”

‘Listening is act of love,’ says papal message to European youths

December 28, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The Christian community and society need young people to live out their dreams of a world where people listen to one another, accept each other and build bridges with members of different cultures and religions, Pope Francis told young Europeans meeting to “pray in” the new year.

Cardinal says Vatican is not moving toward accepting gay marriage

December 28, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News

The Vatican’s affirmation that a priest can give an informal blessing to a gay couple who asks for one is not a first step toward the Catholic Church recognizing same-sex marriages, said Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Pope encourages persecuted Christians to stay strong in their witness

December 27, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

On the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis prayed for people persecuted for their faith or denigrated for living a life marked by Gospel values.

‘The devil is a seducer,’ pope says as he begins new series of talks

December 27, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The devil is sly and sneaky like a serpent and subtly entices people to sin, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience Dec. 27.

Pope’s Christmas message: Say ‘yes’ to the Prince of Peace, ‘no’ to war

December 27, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Celebrating the birth of Jesus, the prince of peace, should mean making a commitment to opposing all war, to cherishing human life, feeding the hungry and speaking up for those who have no voice, Pope Francis said.

Welcome Jesus into the manger of your heart, papal preacher says

December 22, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The first step toward keeping Christ in Christmas is for Christians to make room for him in their hearts, the preacher of the papal household told Pope Francis and top Vatican officials.

Listening: It’s not a fast-paced game of ping pong, pope tells Curia

December 21, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Officials of the Roman Curia must learn how to really listen to others, not treating a discussion as a game of “ping pong” where everything another says is met with a speedy and automatic response, Pope Francis said.

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