On his second day in Lithuania, Pope Francis traveled 65 miles to Kaunas, the country’s second largest city, to celebrate Mass in Santakos Park for more than 100,000 people.
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Pope Francis arrives in Lithuania, tells audience to “build bridges”
Pope Francis arrived in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to celebrate the centenary of the country’s independence.
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Pope Francis recognizes Chinese bishops ordained without papal approval
Pope Francis has recognized all the remaining bishops who were ordained in China in recent years without the pope’s approval.
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Pope Francis will visit former K.G.B. headquarters in Lithuania
Pope Francis ends his official visit to Vilnius on Sunday evening at the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, housed in the former headquarters of the K.G.B.
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A historic struggle for independence: Pope Francis visits the Baltic states
He is the second pope to visit these Baltic nations. John Paul II came to the region in September 1993, after the collapse of communism, and was welcomed as a hero. Pope Francis comes exactly 25 years later, but much has changed since that first papal visit.
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Pope Francis tells V Encuentro: “Tear down walls and build bridges”
The U.S. bishops initiated the Encuentro, which means “Encounter,” to better serve the growing Latin American community.
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Three Baltic states once in Russia’s shadow prepare to welcome Pope Francis
Francis is visiting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to help mark their centennial of independence from czarist Russia.
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Some cry ‘scandal’ to cover their own failings, pope says at Mass
“The devil doesn’t have anything to do with repentant sinners because they look to God and say, ‘Lord, I’m a sinner. Help me,’ and the devil is impotent,” the pope said Sept. 20 during Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
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Australian bishop who was victim of sex abuse speaks on U.S. church’s crisis
Australia’s Bishop Long Van Nguyen on how the church can heal during the sexual abuse crisis.
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Livestream: Papal Nuncio on the Foundations of Pope Francis
Join America Media for a discussion with Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, with Matt Malone, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine, on the foundations of the papacy of pope Francis.