A $5 million donation is going to help launch the Catholic Sisters Cognitive Impairment-Alzheimer’s Global Initiative, a project to help religious orders care for sisters with dementia.
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Pope Francis: Liturgy wars are the work of the devil.
“When liturgical life is a bit of a banner of division, there is the odor of the devil, the deceiver,” the pope said on May 7.
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A Ukrainian and a Russian were invited to lead the Vatican’s Via Crucis. Ukraine wants Pope Francis to reconsider.
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the pope’s Way of the Cross service.
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Joe Donnelly, a ‘proud’ Catholic, presents credentials to Pope Francis as U.S. ambassador to Holy See
The new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See officially began his duties April 11, presenting his letters of credential to Pope Francis.
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Teachers at Catholic schools should conform to church teaching, Vatican congregation says
But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.
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Inside Day 1 of the historic encounter between Pope Francis and Canada’s Indigenous communities
Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities.
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Pope Francis announces major overhaul of Roman Curia
Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a project he began with his international College of Cardinals shortly after taking office in 2013.
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Ukraine mayor invites Pope Francis to visit Kyiv, asking ‘the world’s spiritual leaders to take a stand’
Pope Francis has been invited to the besieged capital of Ukraine.
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Pope Francis on Ukraine: ‘Stop this massacre’
“In the name of God, I ask: Stop this massacre,” the pope said March 13 at the end of his Sunday Angelus address.
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Pope Francis will visit war-torn Congo and South Sudan in July
The pope will visit Kinshasa and Goma, Congo and Juba, South Sudan, joining Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.