Nick Ut, a retired Associated Press photographer, gave Pope Francis a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young Vietnamese girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack.
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Pope Francis: Grandparents are valuable for more than just their money
“The life of our communities must know how to benefit from the talents and charisms of so many elderly people who are already retired, but who are a wealth to be treasured,” Pope Francis said in his weekly audience.
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Titus Brandsma was killed in a Nazi death camp. This Sunday, Pope Francis will make him a saint.
A renowned Dutch priest, professor and journalist, Titus Brandsma was killed in a Nazi concentration camp. The woman who executed him later became Catholic—and this Sunday, Father Brandsma will be made a saint.
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Pope Francis: Liturgy wars are the work of the devil.
“When liturgical life is a bit of a banner of division, there is the odor of the devil, the deceiver,” the pope said on May 7.
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Pope Francis speaks to LGBT Catholics in new letter: God ‘does not disown any of his children.’
Pope Francis lent a nod of support to a new project that provides resources for L.G.B.T. parish ministry in a note to James Martin, S.J.
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What critics of Pope Francis’ NATO comments don’t understand about Vatican diplomacy
Some observers fail to realize that Vatican diplomacy must be tuned to the church’s centuries-old mission of loving our enemies.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
‘Amoris Laetitia’ conference aims to promote Pope Francis’ teaching on family, sexuality and marriage
Pope Francis’ teaching on the family hasn’t been fully embraced. This conference on “Amoris Laetitia” seeks to change that.
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Pope Francis approved spending 1 million euros to free nun kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants
Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday.
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Podcast: Pope Francis is ‘pessimistic’ about the possibility of peace in Ukraine
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss why Pope Francis is pessimistic about peace talks with Russia.
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Pope Francis tells the elderly: Don’t be religious hypocrites—young people are watching us.
The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.