Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis is writing to all the heads of state around the world, asking them to consider granting some prisoners clemency at Christmas.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News
Preparing for the priesthood, seminarians must remember both the joy of being called by God and the real sacrifices they will be called to make, Pope Francis told young men preparing for the priesthood at the seminary of Barcelona, Spain.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Even the most fervent believers go through moments of doubt and questioning about God, and it is a good thing, Pope Francis said, because it helps one see that God does not fit into the little box people make for him.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
While many people involved with the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative continue to hope Pope Francis will issue an encyclical promoting nonviolence as a spirituality and way of life, they also know that Catholics already are engaged in teaching and supporting nonviolence in situations of conflict and exploitation around the globe.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary “the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The mayor of Lviv, Ukraine, and a team of doctors treating those injured in the war gave Pope Francis a cross with an embedded piece of shrapnel removed from the body of a young girl.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
True love of God or love of another person should lead to a sense of freedom, not to a need to possess or control, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
Meeting with a delegation from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the pope supported their proposal to launch a series of educational programs aimed at helping Christians and Jews in Latin America tap into their common spiritual heritage to become “agents of social change.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Stopping to gaze at and perhaps pray before a Nativity scene is one of the best ways to remember the real meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Making churches accessible and services understandable is important, but having wheelchair ramps and sign-language interpreters is not enough for a parish to call itself “inclusive,” Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News
Italy’s declining birthrate is alarming, and groups that assist Italian families must do more both in terms of lobbying and witnessing to the joy of family life, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News
Migration across the Mediterranean Sea is as old as humanity, and while some governments say they want to stop that movement of people, it will not and should not happen, Pope Francis said.
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