Tag: Pope
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Meet Pope Francis’ personal travel agent — new cardinal George Koovakad
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Nov 7, 2024 / 06:00 am Pope Francis’ personal travel agent — the priest who organizes his trips around the world — is one of the 21 clerics who will be made a cardinal at a consistory at the Vatican in December. The pontiff introduced Father George Jacob Koovakad to…
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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 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: We must acknowledge our sins, ask forgiveness to become missionary Church
By Kristina Millare Vatican City, Oct 1, 2024 / 18:30 pm On the eve of the second session of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis said on Tuesday that the Catholic Church must first acknowledge its sins and ask for forgiveness before it can be credible in carrying out the mission Jesus Christ entrusted to…
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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,…