Tag: Pope Francis
Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict receive their first doses of...
VATICAN CITY -- Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 after the Vatican...
Pope Francis prays for the United States after violence at Capitol;...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis offered prayers for the people of the United States "shaken by the recent siege on Congress" and prayed for...
Pope Francis orders change to canon law, women may now formally...
VATICAN CITY -- Recognizing "the gifts of each baptized person" -- women and men -- Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and...
For a long time we thought we could live healthy in...
A few stale Christmas cookies linger, but the mailbox has yielded its last, tardy Christmas card, and those not-so-merry tax documents are showing up...
Pope Francis offers prayers for poor, uneducated, asks all to be...
VATICAN CITY -- As the Catholic Church celebrated World Peace Day Jan. 1, Pope Francis offered prayers for the people of war-torn Yemen, especially...
Pope Francis, absent from year-end liturgy, submits remarks urging people to...
The notable absence of Pope Francis at the final liturgical celebration of 2020 in St. Peter's Basilica capped off a difficult year for the...
Pope Francis implores focus on family: ‘When an argument starts at...
As the fifth anniversary of his apostolic exhortation "Amoris Laetitia" approaches, Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church will dedicate more than a year...
Pope Francis offers hope, urges vaccine for disadvantaged, end to pandemic
VATICAN CITY -- On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the...
Christmas traditions shape our faith, help us share it with our...
When I think of Christmas traditions, I have memories of "Posadas," "Pastorelas" or Nativity plays, "pesebres vivientes" or living nativities, the "Misa del Gallo"...
Pope Francis and the pandemic, year in review: Prayer, online meetings,...
VATICAN CITY -- Like everyone else, Pope Francis' 2020 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lockdowns, live streamed Masses, video messages and even something akin...