Tag: Pope
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Pope Francis prays Angelus at Vatican: The heart of our faith is love
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Nov 3, 2024 / 13:35 pm Pope Francis on Sunday spoke about Jesus’ teaching that “all things must be done with love,” something, he said, that is essential for the faith of each person. Every Sunday at noon, the pope appears at a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square to give…
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Pope Francis presides over All Souls’ Mass at cemetery for unborn
By AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Nov 2, 2024 / 08:34 am Pope Francis marked All Souls’ Day with a Mass at a Roman cemetery on Saturday, making a special visit to the “Garden of Angels.” More than 100 faithful gathered with Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri at the Laurentino Cemetery, the city’s third-largest burial ground, to…
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Pope Francis cuts salaries of Vatican cardinals again
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 28, 2024 / 18:40 pm Pope Francis has decided to cut the salaries of the cardinals working at the Vatican again, a measure that will take effect Nov. 1. According to the Italian ANSA news agency, layman Maximino Caballero Ledo, the prefect of the Secretariat for the…
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Pope Francis in Angelus address mourns Catholic priest murdered in Mexico
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 27, 2024 / 11:40 am In his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis remembered Father Marcelo Pérez, a priest recently murdered in the violence-stricken region of Chiapas, Mexico. The pope called the slain priest “a zealous servant of the Gospel and God’s faithful people” and said he joined the…
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Pope Francis skips traditional exhortation, directly implements 2024 synod document
By AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Oct 26, 2024 / 17:15 pm In a departure from usual practice, Pope Francis announces he will not issue a postsynodal apostolic exhortation, choosing instead to directly implement the Synod on Synodality’s final document. Here is what you need to know. ”What we have approved in the document is enough,“…
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Pope Francis canonizes 14 new saints, including priests martyred in Syria
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 20, 2024 / 11:00 am Pope Francis canonized 14 new saints on Sunday, including a father of eight and Franciscan friars killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith and convert to Islam. In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century…
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Pope Francis: ‘True wealth is being loved by God’
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 13, 2024 / 11:12 am Happiness is not found in material things but in God himself, who shows us the joy found in making our lives a gift for others, Pope Francis said in his Sunday Angelus address. “Let us remember this: True wealth is not the goods of…
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Pope Francis responds to critics of his comments on women in Belgium
By CNA Staff Aboard the papal plane, Sep 29, 2024 / 12:00 pm Aboard the papal plane to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis responded to criticism of remarks he made about women during a Sept. 28 visit to a Catholic university in Louvain, Belgium, saying it is an “obtuse mind” that intentionally misunderstands his position.…
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Pope Francis lauds Belgian king who chose to abdicate rather than sign abortion law
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Sep 28, 2024 / 14:15 pm Pope Francis lauded Belgian King Baudouin for choosing to temporarily abdicate the throne rather than sign a law legalizing abortion during a visit to the Catholic king’s tomb on Saturday in Belgium. The pope also expressed hope that the sainthood cause for King Baudouin,…
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Pope Francis at Angelus: ‘True power is taking care of the weakest’
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Sep 22, 2024 / 09:25 am On Sunday, Pope Francis recalled Jesus’ teaching that true power is found by taking care of others, not by exploiting them or using them. “With a word as simple as it is decisive, Jesus renews our way of living. He teaches us that true…