This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Colleen and Gerry discuss Pope Francis’ proclamation of Jubilee Year 2025 and also review a global synod meeting of 200 parish priests held outside Rome earlier this month.
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Pope Francis: What makes Christian love different
“In our days, love is on the lips of many ‘influencers’ and in the refrains of many songs,” Pope Francis said in today’s general audience on the theological virtue of charity. “We speak a lot about love, but what is love?”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
PBS’s ‘Dante’ introduces the divine poet—and neglects his Catholic faith
Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.
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Pope Francis: Selfishness—not too many babies—is the root cause of the world’s problems
“Human life is not a problem, it is a gift,” said Pope Francis at a meeting on Italy’s longtime decline in births and population growth on May 10. “The problem is not how many of us there are in the world, but what kind of world we are building.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Hope is the central message of Pope Francis’ decree for Jubilee Year 2025
Pope Francis today promulgated the decree, known as a “Bull of Indiction,” for the Jubilee Year 2025, which he will open in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2024, and close on Jan. 6, 2026.
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Pope Francis: Hope is for the young at heart
Pope Francis delivered his general audience today about the theological virtue of hope. Francis said that if Christians have hope for the future, it is because “Christ died and rose again and gave us His Spirit.”
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Pope Francis visits Venice Biennale art festival in another papal first
In Venice, Pope Francis visits a Vatican-sponsored exhibition at a women’s prison, meets with inmates and presides at Mass.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
The synod can’t succeed without parish priests, Pope Francis says in new letter
Pope Francis wrote a letter of encouragement to parish priests, who were largely missing from the first synod session.
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Pope Francis: Fear is the great enemy of faith
The great enemy of faith is not intelligence, nor is it reason, as some continue obsessively to repeat, Pope Francis said in his general audience today. The great enemy of faith is fear.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Joe Biden and Donald Trump could learn from Pope Francis about media access
Regardless of what one thinks of the advisability of a pope known for his off-the-cuff remarks partaking in long interviews, the fact remains that Pope Francis is more willing than both candidates to sit down one-on-one in front of a camera.