Pope Francis called on protestors to express their demands “peacefully” and appealed to government leaders to meet their “just aspirations.”
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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Cardinal Tagle has tested positive for Covid-19 in Manila, and is in isolation.
Cardinal Tagle tested positive for Covid-19 on his arrival at Manila airport Sept. 10. He showed no symptoms, but is now in isolation.
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Pope Francis: Defeat Covid-19 by working for the common good
Pope Francis: “A virus that does not recognize barriers, borders or cultural or political distinctions must be faced with a love without barriers, borders or distinctions.”
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Bishop-elect of Duluth resigns following sexual abuse allegation
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Michel Mulloy, the bishop elect of Duluth following an investigation.
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Pope Francis will sign new encyclical on human fraternity at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi
The new encyclical will bear the title “Fratelli tutti” and it will be released on the feast of St. Francis on Oct. 3.
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Pope Francis on the ‘ecological conversion’ that led him to ‘Laudato Si’
Between 2007 and the publication of “Laudato Si’” in 2015, Pope Francis “underwent a journey of conversion, of conversion of the ecological problem. Before that I didn’t understand anything.”
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In first public audience in six months, Pope Francis calls for a better post-pandemic world
Pope Francis concluded: “We do not come out from a crisis the same as before. We either come out better or worse. We must choose. Solidarity is the way to come out better.”
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Pope Francis: The pandemic has ‘given us a chance to develop new ways of living.’
In his message for the sixth World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis also called for “the cancellation of the debt of the most vulnerable countries.”
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Pope Francis calls on world community to aid Lebanon, urges nuclear arms abolition
Pope Francis: “Last Tuesday’s catastrophe calls everyone, beginning with the Lebanese people, to work together for the common good of this beloved country.”
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Pope Francis appoints 6 women (and a U.S. cardinal) to Vatican economic council
These appointments are a further indication of the pope’s determination to give more responsibility to women in the Vatican in positions that do not require ordination.