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Global pastor: In word and deed, pope preached mercy, outreach
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88, gave new energy to millions of Catholics — and caused concern for some — as he transformed the image of the papacy into a pastoral ministry based on personal encounters and strong convictions about poverty, mission and dialogue. U.S. Cardinal…
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Archbishop Broglio’s Statement on Death of Pope Francis
WASHINGTON – Upon the news from the Holy See announcing the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued the following statement in remembrance: Pope Francis will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church and of…
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Pope died of stroke, heart attack, coma, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart attack, said the director of Vatican City State’s department of health services. The pope had also gone into a coma. “I certify that His Holiness Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, resident of…
Global pastor: In word and deed, pope preached mercy, outreach
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88, gave new energy to millions of Catholics — and caused concern for some — as he transformed the image of the papacy into a pastoral ministry based on personal encounters and strong convictions about poverty, mission and dialogue. U.S. Cardinal…
Archbishop Broglio’s Statement on Death of Pope Francis
WASHINGTON – Upon the news from the Holy See announcing the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued the following statement in remembrance: Pope Francis will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church and of…
Pope died of stroke, heart attack, coma, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart attack, said the director of Vatican City State’s department of health services. The pope had also gone into a coma. “I certify that His Holiness Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, resident of…
Pope on Easter: Jesus’ resurrection makes Christians pilgrims of hope
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The hope Christians have is not a sign of avoiding reality but of trusting in the power of God to defeat sin and death as the resurrection of Jesus clearly shows, Pope Francis wrote in his Easter message. “All those who put their hope in God place their feeble hands in…
Religious freedom, migration on agenda as Vance meets Cardinal Parolin
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican. Vance met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and with Archbishop…
Christ’s light breaks through world’s darkness, pope says in vigil message
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the lights of St. Peter’s Basilica were extinguished and silence settled through the sprawling interior, a single flame — the paschal candle — pierced through the gloom, representing the light of the risen Christ which “quietly shines forth, even though we are in darkness,” Pope Francis said. Before the wounds…
Love, not power saves the world, papal preacher says at service with Vance
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus, who redeemed humanity by giving up his life on the cross, shows that it is not strength that saves the world, but the “weakness” of boundless love, the papal preacher told thousands of people gathered for the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, including U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Today’s world,…
Changing the world demands changing direction, pope writes for Way of Cross
ROME (CNS) — Today’s “builders of Babel” are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are “losers,” Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross. “Your way, Jesus, is the way of the Beatitudes. It does not crush, but cultivates, repairs and protects,” the pope wrote for the nighttime…
Be ‘heralds of hope,’ pope asks priests in homily for chrism Mass
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the Holy Thursday chrism Mass. “It is God’s work, not ours: to bring good news to…
‘Why them and not me,’ pope asks after Holy Thursday visit to jail
ROME (CNS) — While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome’s Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17. The pope was welcomed by Claudia Clementi, the jail’s director, and met with about 70 inmates…