On Easter Monday, Pope Francis offered solidarity and prayers to the people of the United States and other countries hard hit by Covid-19.
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In Easter message, Pope Francis proposes ‘universal basic wage’
Pope Francis said in an Easter Sunday message that the coronavirus epidemic could also be an opportunity for affluent societies to re-evaluate patterns of consumption and exploitation.
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In Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ address, Pope Francis calls for an end to indifference
In his Easter “Urbi et Orbi” address, Pope Francis appealed for a global ceasefire, as well as for the relaxing of sanctions and the reduction or forgiveness of the debt of poor countries. He urged an all-out effort to care for those who lack the basic necessities of life, including refugees and migrants.
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Pope Francis delivers stirring message of hope to humanity in its ‘darkest hour’ at Easter Vigil
At the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday evening, Pope Francis delivered an inspiring homily in which he likened the experience of the women in Jerusalem to that of people around the world today as they endure the Covid-19 epidemic.
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The 1995 film ‘Safe’ has new meaning during our coronavirus isolation
Todd Haynes’s second feature film, starring Julianne Moore as a woman isolated by a mysterious illness, resonates anew in our sudden quarantine, writes America’s Ryan Di Corpo.
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Pope Francis oversees an emotional Way of the Cross in empty square
In an empty St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis presided over the historic ‘Via Crucis” with help from groups of health care workers and prisoners.
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Father Cantalamessa: Coronavirus rouses world from delusion of omnipotence
The preacher of the papal household said on April 10, Good Friday, that “Christ’s cross changed the meaning of pain and human suffering, in that both are no longer viewed as divine punishment or a curse.”
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Podcast: Meet the Catholic author behind a coronavirus poem that went viral
Laura Fanucci was up in the middle of the night with her 5-week-old newborn when the words came to her: “When this is all over….”
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Why faith and fear of death are not incompatible
As fearful and fearless Christians, we are called to lovingly and cautiously care for our own lives and those of others, acknowledging the startling beauty and value of human life in all stages.
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If contagion comes from sin, in Christ’s death God gives the vaccine
The contagion that matters most the Son of God will receive into his own flesh.