In a new documentary from Wim Wenders, Francis is sober, consoling, occasionally sad and always jesuitical.
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Pope Francis denounces spiral of violence in the Holy Land
Francis spoke after one of the worst days of violence in the Holy Land since 2014.
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‘Selfie’ culture leads to alienation, says Pope Francis
While taking selfies can be an occasion to capture treasured memories, it can also be a sign that young men and women are deprived of meaningful human interaction with others, Pope Francis said.
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Pope documentarian: Francis is ‘most fearless man I ever met’
“He’s totally fearless. Because he has a lot of opposition,” the filmmaker said.
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Chilean bishops: We have come to Rome in ‘pain and shame’
In their first meeting, Pope Francis provided the bishops with texts to pray and meditate on.
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Pope Francis prays for victims of church bombings carried out by ISIS-inspired family in Indonesia
A family of six that included two young children carried out deadly attacks on three churches in Indonesia on Sunday.
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Chilean bishops set to meet with Pope Francis in response to the sexual abuse crisis
In an extraordinary response to a widening sexual abuse crisis, Chilean bishops will arrive in Rome this weekend to participate in a summit called by Pope Francis, May 14 through 17.
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Inquiry or Inquisition? Another look at Father Teilhard de Chardin
The Jesuit’s approach was groundbreaking because “it was not a simple reconciliation of science and faith; it was integrating, creating a single, wholistic vision because the past danger was having a radical separation” of the two.
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Pope Francis: Never forget that Mary was a lay person
“Never forget that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a lay person and his first disciple.”
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Pope Francis takes on Mafia on anniversary of St. John Paul’s stand.
Pope John Paul II described the Mafia as “a culture of death, profoundly inhuman, anti-Gospel, an enemy of human dignity and civil peace.”