Tag: Pope Francis
Holy Door will be designated at sites in Rome during Holy...
VATICAN CITY -- While bishops around the world are asked to designate their cathedrals or other significant churches as special places of pilgrimage and...
Pope Francis visits and thanks amusement park workers for making people...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis visited an amusement park an hour outside of Rome to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing...
Pope urges political leaders to be at service of the people,...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has called on political leaders to be at the service of the poor, the unemployed and the common good.
The...
Pope Francis says focus of July 28 World Day for Grandparents...
VATICAN CITY -- Any Catholic who participates in the celebration July 28 of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly can receive a...
Be grateful for the beauty given to us in each precious...
My 3-year-old granddaughter was on a beach weekend. When the ice cream wagon made its trek across the sand, her parents allowed her a...
Pope Francis stresses the importance of worldwide democracy at Italian Catholic...
VATICAN CITY -- Catholics are called to be active participants in political life and be a force against the decline of democracy worldwide, Pope...
Pope Francis tells audience heaven is not a secure vault: ‘Everyone,...
VATICAN CITY -- Heaven is not a secure vault protected from outsiders but a "hidden treasure" that is reached by cultivating virtues, Pope Francis...
Pope Francis says the emptying of Christians from the Middle East...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis expressed his concern that Christians fleeing the Holy Land and the whole of the Middle East will leave no...
Pope Francis prays for addicts and for the conversion of drug...
VATICAN CITY -- While Christians must treat addicts with care and comprehension, drug traffickers who push their products on the vulnerable are "murderers" who...
Pope Francis names Iowa priest, former Elkton, Md., resident Father Scott...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has appointed Father Scott E. Bullock, pastor of St. Edward Parish in Waterloo, Iowa, as bishop of Rapid City, South...










