Catholic Review
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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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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
A new bronze sculpture installed in St. Peter’s Square, near the showers and medical clinic the Vatican runs for people in need, invites visitors to reflect on the sacredness of welcoming others, especially the marginalized.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay movements following decades of abuse allegations and internal investigations.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering — it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News
Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world’s largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity in the apse of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Lent, News, Vatican, World News
The temptation to cling to the past — to hold on to what was, including something sacred — can keep believers from truly embracing the hope offered by the risen Christ, said the preacher of the papal household.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
Individual devotees, pilgrim groups and students on school field trips visited Blessed Carlo’s tomb in the church, which stands next to the site where St. Francis famously stripped off his fine clothing to embrace a life poverty.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
With thousands of infirmed people and those who care for them gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a nasal cannula, made an unexpected appearance to greet the crowd.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The Vatican and Russian foreign ministers discussed “initiatives aimed at stopping the military actions” in Ukraine during a phone call April 4.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Lent, News, Vatican, World News
Jesus’ resurrection is not a triumphant display of power over his enemies, but rather a quiet, radical act of love that invites believers to rise from their own failures with joy and humility, the preacher of the papal household said.
