Tag: Pope
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Pope adds St. Isaac of Nineveh to Roman Martyrology, honors persecuted Middle East Christians
By AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Nov 9, 2024 / 09:00 am Pope Francis announced on Saturday that St. Isaac of Nineveh, a seventh-century Assyrian bishop venerated across Christian traditions, will be added to the Roman Martyrology. The pope made the announcement on the occasion of a Vatican meeting with Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the…
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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 closes Synod on Synodality with call for a Church that ‘hears the cry of the world’
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 27, 2024 / 08:55 am Pope Francis closed the global Synod on Synodality’s final assembly on Sunday with a call for a Church that “hears the cry of the world” without being “blind” to the urgent issues facing our time. At the synod’s closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica,…
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Jesuit priest gifts Pope Francis a special wheelchair from Cambodia
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú Vatican City, Oct 25, 2024 / 06:00 am Jesuit priest and apostolic prefect of Battambang in Cambodia Father Enrique “Kike” Figaredo this week presented Pope Francis with a wheelchair made by land mine survivors in Cambodia. The Spanish missionary traveled to Rome from the Southeast Asian country with a special gift for…
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Pope Francis to release new encyclical ‘Dilexit Nos’ on the Sacred Heart of Jesus
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 21, 2024 / 07:49 am Pope Francis will publish the fourth encyclical of his pontificate on Thursday on “the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical, titled Dilexit Nos, meaning “he has loved us,” will be published Oct. 24. The pope had announced in…
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Pope Francis writes letter to 21 new cardinals in College of Cardinals: You express the Church’s unity
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Oct 12, 2024 / 09:00 am Pope Francis expressed in a letter Saturday a desire that each of the 21 new cardinals to be added in December will be more of a “servant” than an “eminence.” The pope’s brief letter, published Oct. 12, also welcomed the cardinals-designate to membership in…
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Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 6, 2024 / 07:41 am Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Tehran, Tokyo, and Toronto, at a consistory on Dec. 8 The 87-year-old pope made the announcement from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square after reciting the Angelus prayer…
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Who is King Baudouin? Meet the king of the Belgians whom Pope Francis wants to canonize
By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 4, 2024 / 06:00 am Capping off a very busy month of international travels, Pope Francis made a surprise announcement last Sunday to the thousands of attendees at the papal Mass at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. “On my return to Rome, I will open the process for…
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Pope Francis calls for global day of prayer and fasting amid escalating conflict in Holy Land
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 2, 2024 / 06:49 am Pope Francis has called for a global day of prayer and fasting on Oct. 7 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel amid escalating violence in the region. The pope’s surprise announcement, made at the end of his homily at…
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Pope Francis celebrates anniversary of his vocation to the priesthood
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 06:00 am Seventy-one years ago, on Sept. 21, 1953, a young Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s priestly vocation was born. He would enter the novitiate of the Society of Jesus on March 11, 1958, and be ordained a priest on Dec. 13, 1969, just days before his…