So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night.
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Jesuit leader: Pope Francis allowed differing opinions—and didn’t ‘seek to please everyone’
A church that dialogues is “much more interesting than a church where things fall from up high,” Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, said.
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When will ‘millennial saint’ Carlo Acutis be canonized? Without a pope, it’s TBD.
The canonization Mass for the first “millennial saint,” originally scheduled for this Sunday, has been delayed indefinitely.
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Pope Francis wanted the church to be a field hospital. Will this legacy endure?
Pope Francis centered the poor and elevated joy in the mission of the church. These characteristics help us understand what a field hospital church is about. As a field hospital, the church’s structures and actions should always be in service of its mission.
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Jesus, Pope Francis and the triumph of intimacy
A Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy, by Terrance Klein
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‘Jesuitical’ remembers Pope Francis, with his fellow Jesuits Sam Sawyer and James Martin
On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac are joined by magazine’s editor in chief, Sam Sawyer, S.J., and America editor at large James Martin, S.J., to discuss “the people’s pope.”
Posted inFaith, The Word
As the Father sent me, so I send you
April 27, 2025, the Second Sunday of Easter: The most astonishing lesson of divine mercy appears in this Sunday’s Gospel reading. Jesus forgives the disciples who abandoned him.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
A final goodbye to my friend, Pope Francis
My wife and I lost a friend on earth, Gerard O’Connell writes, but we now have a friend in heaven.
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What Pope Francis meant to kids like me
I know adults tell children not to take candy from strangers. But I decided to amend the rule: Never take candy from strangers unless that “stranger” is the pope!
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Jesus wants peace for us
A Reflection for Thursday in the Octave of Easter, by Michael J. O’Loughlin