Pope Francis reiterated the Holy See’s commitment to end the fighting and find a way to obtain “a just peace.”
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Pope: ‘Every time a woman comes in to do a job in the Vatican, things get better’
“A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished,” he said.
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Exclusive interview: Australian Archbishop Costelloe tells Pope Francis ‘The church in Australia is alive.’
In their first private one-on-one conversation, the president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B., told Pope Francis, “The church in Australia is alive!”
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Pope Francis slams ‘childlike’ whims of powerful that start wars as Putin’s invasion of Ukraine rages on
Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on Friday in calling for the great religions to work together for peace.
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In Bahrain, Pope Francis calls for full religious freedom and an end to the death penalty
Commitments to protect tolerance and religious freedom need to be put into practice constantly so that these rights may be fully experienced, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis in Bahrain: What to know and expect
The pope will meet with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, at the interreligious meeting “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”
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Pope Francis on All Souls’ Day: At our final judgment, all that counts is how we loved the poor.
The Gospel teaches people how to live while awaiting death and God’s judgment, loving because he is love, Pope Francis said during a Mass at St. Peter’s on All Souls’ Day.
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Pope Francis: Saints weren’t conformists. They were revolutionaries who lived the beatitudes.
The multitude of men and women honored on the feast of All Saints lived according to the Eight Beatitudes.
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I helped write the first global synod document. Here’s what we heard from Catholics around the world.
Following the listening phase of the Synod on Synodality, a mix of religious, clergy and lay people gathered in Frascati, Italy, to synthesize reports from around the world. Austen Ivereigh took part and gives this insider’s account.
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Pope Francis: Sadness should be an alarm bell in our spiritual lives
“We must not remain defeated by a moment of sadness,” Pope Francis said in his Wednesday general audience about desolation, continuing his discussion of discernment.