“The concern of the risen Jesus is not to confuse his enemies, but to go and reassure his dismayed disciples,” he said.
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For the first time, Pope Francis washed the feet of only women at Holy Thursday liturgy
The 12 women whose feet were washed by Pope Francis included women from Italy, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, Peru, Venezuela and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Here’s what Pope Francis has planned for Holy Week
As Catholics around the world observe Holy Week, the hosts of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell, take a look at Pope Francis’ Holy Week plans.
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Full Text: Pope Francis’ Easter message to the Catholics in the Holy Land
“Easter, the heart of our faith, is all the more significant for you who celebrate this feast in the very places where our Lord lived, died and rose again,” Pope Francis writes to Catholics of all rites living in the Holy Land.
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Pope Francis: Love is patient. But what does that really mean?
In his cycle of catechesis on virtues, Pope Francis calls us to emulate Christ’s patience, saying that “patience is not only a need, it is a calling: if Christ is patient, the Christian is called to be patient.”
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Pope Francis condemns ‘vile terrorist attack’ in Moscow at Palm Sunday ceremony
Though Pope Francis skipped over his prepared homily at today’s Palm Sunday Mass, he used the opening of Holy Week to condemn terrorism and war in Moscow, Ukraine and Gaza.
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Ukraine’s top Catholic bishop: Pope Francis’ calls for negotiations with Russia are ‘deeply hurtful’
Ukrainians had already experienced a “crisis of faith in the pope’s primacy,” Major Archbishop Shevchuk said, and that the pope’s latest statements were “deeply hurtful.”
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Pope Francis defrocks former Belgian bishop who admitted to abusing his nephew
Pope Francis has dismissed the former bishop of Bruges, Belgium, from the clerical state 14 years after Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation following his admission that he sexually abused his nephew.
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Pope Francis: Prudent people are great decision-makers
In his cycle of catechesis on virtues, Pope Francis focused his general audience on prudence, stating that “In a world dominated by appearances, by superficial thoughts, by the triviality of both good and bad, the ancient lesson of prudence deserves to be revived.”
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Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to meet with Vladimir Putin in Russia
Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in June to meet with Vladimir Putin, the director of the Holy See press office said.