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Baltimore Archbishop William Lori saddened by death of Pope Francis; plans to host memorial Mass tonight

April 21, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said April 21 that he was saddened to learn of Pope Francis’ passing and that he plans to attend his funeral as well as host a memorial Mass locally.

With pastor’s touch, Pope Francis preached mercy, embraced ‘peripheries’

April 21, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88 gave new energy to millions of Catholics — and caused concern for some — as he transformed the image of the papacy into a pastoral ministry based on personal encounters and strong convictions about mission, poverty, immigration and dialogue.

Pope on Easter: Jesus’ resurrection makes Christians pilgrims of hope

April 20, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The hope Christians have is not a sign of avoiding reality but of trusting in the power of God to defeat sin and death as the resurrection of Jesus clearly shows, Pope Francis wrote in his Easter message.

Christ’s light breaks through world’s darkness, pope says in vigil message

April 19, 2025
By Justin McLellan
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.

Religious freedom, migration on agenda as Vance meets Cardinal Parolin

April 19, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News

Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.

Changing the world demands changing direction, pope writes for Way of Cross

April 19, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Today’s “builders of Babel” are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are “losers,” Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

Love, not power saves the world, papal preacher says at service with Vance

April 18, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Jesus, who redeemed humanity by giving up his life on the cross, shows that it is not strength that saves the world, but the “weakness” of boundless love, the papal preacher told thousands of people gathered for the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, including U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

‘Why them and not me,’ pope asks after Holy Thursday visit to prison

April 17, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome’s Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17.

Be ‘heralds of hope,’ pope asks priests in homily for chrism Mass

April 17, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the Holy Thursday chrism Mass.

Pope sends ‘generous’ donation to aid Myanmar quake victims

April 16, 2025
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis has sent “a generous contribution” to Myanmar to help people impacted by a major earthquake in late March.

JD Vance announces trip to Rome, meeting at Vatican

April 16, 2025
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.

Pope thanks medical team that cared for him during hospitalization

April 16, 2025
By Justin McLellan
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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