Cindy Wooden

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Pope prays Ulma family will inspire people to care for those in need

September 11, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

Risking and ultimately losing their lives to shelter Jews persecuted by the Nazis, “the martyrs Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children” were models of “evangelical love,” Pope Francis said.

Pope calls for literacy in peacemaking, care for the environment

September 8, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

If people can learn how to inflict suffering on others with ever more deadly weapons, they also can learn to stop doing so, Pope Francis said.

Document found detailing convents in Rome that hid Jews from the Nazis

September 8, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were hidden in Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome during the Nazi occupation of the city.

Nuncio says polarization occurs when people defend ideas, not people

September 7, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News

The polarization Pope Francis sees in the Catholic Church in the United States is not only a U.S. problem, Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, Vatican nuncio in the United States, told Vatican News.

Pope recounts the joy, goodness, humility he saw in Mongolia

September 6, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Papal Trip to Mongolia, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis said he knows people wonder why he traveled close to 6,000 miles to Mongolia to visit a Catholic community of only 1,450 people.

Message from ‘heart of Asia’: Pope’s words go beyond Mongolian borders

September 5, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Papal Trip to Mongolia, Vatican, World News

Visiting Mongolia Sept. 1-4, Pope Francis encouraged the nation’s tiny Catholic community to grow in faith and charity, but the visit also was designed to reassure the government that it has nothing to fear from the Catholic missionaries who arrived in the country in 1992.

Pope says religion and culture can be misused to frighten and oppress

September 5, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Papal Trip to Mongolia, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

The pope admitted Sept. 4 it was not his best moment when he cited the examples of Peter the Great and Catherine II, who conquered and subjugated neighboring nations and who Russian President Vladimir Putin has evoked as role models in his war on Ukraine.

Pope prays Ulma family will inspire people to care for those in need

Pope calls for literacy in peacemaking, care for the environment

Document found detailing convents in Rome that hid Jews from the Nazis

Nuncio says polarization occurs when people defend ideas, not people

Pope recounts the joy, goodness, humility he saw in Mongolia

Message from ‘heart of Asia’: Pope’s words go beyond Mongolian borders

Pope says religion and culture can be misused to frighten and oppress

Synod assembly won’t be secret, but won’t be open to press, pope says

Charity is motivated by love, not designed to win converts, pope says

Jesus is the answer to human longing, pope says at Mass in Mongolia

Pope, Mongolian religious leaders vow to promote harmony, shun violence

Cardinal counts and cots: Limit on number of electors has practical side

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