Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis issued regular appeals for prayers for Myanmar — a nation embroiled in a political and humanitarian crisis since a military coup plunged the crisis into civil war in February 2021 — and the cardinal leading the country’s approximately 700,000 Catholics often is mentioned as a possible successor to the pope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
As the Catholic Church’s cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, they must be wary of “elegant speeches” that hide a subtle cruelty toward the poor and vulnerable, said the Vatican’s former doctrinal chief.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News
The face of the Catholic Church’s push to reestablish its relationship with the world of culture, a 59-year-old Portuguese poet and theologian, is among the youngest of the cardinals mentioned as a contender to become the successor of St. Peter.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The College of Cardinals confirmed that 135 members are eligible to participate in the conclave, the Vatican announced, and they asked the faithful to accompany them in prayer as they prepare to elect the next pope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a cardinal said at a memorial Mass for Pope Francis.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican announced.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Mercy — the cornerstone of Pope Francis’ teaching and ministry — must guide the Catholic Church through its period of mourning and the uncertainty that lies ahead, the Vatican’s second-ranking official said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News
When Pope Francis chose the small Italian island of Lampedusa as the destination for his first trip outside Rome after his election, he signaled to the world that migration would be a defining issue of his pontificate.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
As the pope of the peripheries, Pope Francis brought the heart, mind and soul of the Catholic Church in Latin America from what he called the “ends of the earth” to the center of Christendom.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, Vocations, World News
From the moment he took the helm of the Catholic Church’s sprawling hierarchy, Pope Francis positioned himself as a pastor close to the people he served, and he called out the behavior of priests who were distant from and thought they were superior to their flocks.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
With his death April 21, Pope Francis marked yet another first in the history of the Catholic Church: he became the first pope to open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica without living to close it.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
As the lights of St. Peter’s Basilica were extinguished and silence settled through the sprawling interior, a single flame — the paschal candle — pierced through the gloom, representing the light of the risen Christ which “quietly shines forth, even though we are in darkness,” Pope Francis said.
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