In his weekly audience, Pope Francis explained that as we bear witness to the Resurrected Christ, we are summoned to emulate the creativity and simplicity that characterize the Spirit’s actions.
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Pope Francis to COP28: ‘Destruction of the environment is an offense against God’
In a speech to the COP28 meeting of world leaders in Dubai read by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis decried the ‘inordinate greed that has made the environment the object of unbridled exploitation.’
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Pope Francis: Christians don’t need to live in the past. The Gospel is alive for us today.
We can easily be discouraged during these difficult times in our world. Yet, Saint Paul reminds us that in God’s plan, we are compelled to express the joy of the Gospel in our daily lives.
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Pope Francis: God’s call is not for just a privileged few
“We cannot say that we are privileged compared to others—no,” Pope Francis said at today’s general audience. “The calling is for a service. And God chooses one in order to love everyone, to reach everyone.”
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Bishop Flores to U.S. bishops: The synod offers us ‘Catholic way’ to grapple with real-world problems
The conversations of the synod are for the sake of building up an ethos, the conversatio of communion and confidence in the accessibility of Christ as He manifests himself in the church.
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Pope Francis: We either proclaim Jesus with joy—or we do not proclaim him at all
“Either we proclaim Jesus with joy, or we do not proclaim him, because another way of proclaiming him is not capable of bringing the true reality of Jesus,” Pope Francis said in his weekly audience.
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Pope Francis: Madeleine Delbrêl teaches us faith is like a bicycle—it can’t stop moving
In his weekly audience, Pope Francis highlighted the witness of the venerable servant of God Madeleine Delbrêl, who calls us to a faith that is maintained in movement.
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Full text: Pope Francis’ homily closing the 2023 Synod on Synodality
In his homily closing the first session of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis reflected on two verbs: “to adore and to serve. We love God through adoration and service.”
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Pope Francis: 3 lessons from the Greek monks who brought an alphabet—and the Gospel—to the Slavs
“Let us ask Saints Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs, that we may be instruments of ‘freedom in charity’ for others,” Pope Francis said at today’s general audience.
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Pope Francis: St. Bakhita shows us how to escape our own slavery
St. Bakhita was able to experience service not as slavery, but as an expression of the free gift of self.