Tag: Pope Francis
‘Cry out,’ pope tells young people at Palm Sunday Mass
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass with thousands of young people, Pope Francis urged them to continue singing and shouting “hosanna”...
Five wounds of Christ: Pope urges recovery of traditional devotion
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis seems to be fixated on the wounds of Christ. And he has suggested that other Catholics might...
Altered photo leads to resignation of communications prefect
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- After a very public controversy involving the use of a letter by retired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis has...
Lesson for Vatican communications: Never alter an image
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WASHINGTON -- What was meant to be an intellectual tribute to Pope Francis has instead become the backdrop to the latest tempest...
Five years a pope: Francis' focus has been on outreach
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope just a few days after telling the College of Cardinals that...
Even when people reject God, his love is never lacking, pope...
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- God's love is never lacking, despite people's sins and rejection of his presence in their lives, Pope Francis said...
U.S. Catholics' political leanings affect their approval ratings of pope
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON -- In the advent of Pope Francis' fifth anniversary in the papacy, a new Pew Research poll of U.S. Catholics shows...
Catholics must counteract 'refusal to welcome' migrants, speakers say
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ROME -- The Catholic Church and Catholic agencies that work with migrants and refugees around the world are called to educate, advocate...
Pope Francis: Don't hold grudges; forgiveness comes from forgiving others
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VATICAN CITY -- Christians must let go of resentments and forgive those who have wronged them so that they may experience God's...
Nuclear dilemma: It's non-violence or non-existence
“To call the world’s nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger and its immediacy,” warned Rachel Bronson, Ph.D., president of the Bulletin of...