“I ask forgiveness,” the pope said on his flight from Lima to Rome. “It’s a hurt [caused] without wishing it.”
Latin America
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
At Mass for 1.3 million, Pope Francis says Jesus “continues to walk on our streets”
Jesus “is here in Lima, or wherever you are living, in the routine of your daily life and work.”
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In Lima, Pope Francis calls for a united, missionary and prophetic church
People and cheered Pope Francis everywhere he went on this last day of his visit.
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At a beach Mass for 200,000 Peruvians, Pope Francis brings hope to storm-hit Trujillo
“Just as the apostles faced the storm on the sea, you had to face the brunt of ‘El Niño costero.’”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
In Peru, Pope Francis deplores degradation of the environment and the toxic effects of corruption
“The degradation of the environment…cannot be separated from the moral degradation of our communities.”
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In Peru, Pope Francis says the church stands with the peoples of the Amazon and the earth
Francis is the first pope to come to the Amazon region, and he insisted that his first event and major speech of his visit to Peru should be to this place.
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‘Machismo’ culture blinds women’s leading role in society, Pope Francis says
Society cannot look the other way and allow a culture that demeans the dignity of women to persist, Pope Francis said.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How Our Lady of Altagracia became the (unofficial) patroness of the Dominican Republic
“Our country is so important to us. We carry the Dominican Republic in our hearts.”
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Priest tends to miners and sex workers deep in Peru’s Amazon
It’s near this forlorn corner of the Amazon that Pope Francis will visit Friday amid what has been called a modern-day gold rush of illegal miners threatening the world’s largest rainforest.
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Jesuit university president hopes Pope Francis can help church in Peru “regain its prophetic voice”
Father Ernesto Cavassa was provincial of the Jesuits in Peru from 1998 to 2004, and president of the Conference of Latin American Jesuit Provincials from 2005 to 2012.