Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Whether Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who relinquished the rights associated with being a cardinal after he was forced to resign in 2020, will be able to enter the conclave to elect a new pope is an ongoing question.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The pre-conclave gatherings give an opportunity for cardinals to emerge as possible papal candidates as the cardinals discuss the issues facing the church and qualities desired in the next pope. The following figures are potential contenders to become the 267th successor of St. Peter.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
One of the world’s top experts on clerical sexual abuse, Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, said Pope Francis will be remembered as a pontiff who made listening to victims of abuse one of the trademarks of his pontificate — a habit that made him a model for other bishops and leaders in the church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Teaching high school literature before and after becoming a priest, Pope Francis possessed an extensive background in the themes and devices in literature and cinema.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Synodality, Vatican, World News
While Pope Francis often bucked formality and sidestepped some offices of the Roman Curia, one institution he believed in deeply was the Synod of Bishops and — even more — the notion of “synodality.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
In the last years of his papacy, the world saw the more serious, concerned and suffering face of Pope Francis. But with one group he was always beaming, always smiling and always cheerful: the poor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American “efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship,” and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Given the late Pope Francis’ care and concern for the poor, a representative group of them has been formally invited to welcome his casket to Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major for burial.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
As they entered the Vatican to participate in a series of meetings leading up to the election of Pope Francis’ successor, several cardinals spoke to the media, emphasizing that they are still mourning the Argentine pontiff — not yet choosing his successor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis must be remembered for his deep Marian piety. In speaking to a group of young people in Rome on June 29, 2014 — the Solemnity of St. Peter and Paul — he famously said: “A Christian without the Madonna is an orphan.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
After the casket bearing Pope Francis’ body was placed in St. Peter’s Basilica, tens of thousands of mourners lined up to pay their respects.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Novels and films that include or revolve around a conclave often include nefarious plotting, or at least politicking, and attempts to wing it when it comes to the rules for electing a new pope.
