On Easter Monday, Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which, he said, “put an end to the violence that had troubled Northern Ireland for decades.”
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Pope Francis’ Easter Message: The international community must strive to end the war in Ukraine
He asked Christ to help the international community “to make haste to surmount our conflicts and divisions, to open our hearts to those in greatest need” and “to pursue paths of peace and fraternity.”
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Pope Francis’ Easter Vigil homily 2023: The women at Easter bring the news that will change life and history forever
This is what the Pasch of the Lord accomplishes: it motivates us to move forward, to leave behind our sense of defeat, to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope, and to look with confidence to the future.
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Papal preacher: Nihilism is the ‘black hole’ of the spiritual universe
“As believers, it is our duty to show what there is behind or underneath” proclamations of relativism and nihilism, that is, to show the truth and new life brought by Christ’s resurrection, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said in his homily on April 7 in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Pope Francis to miss Way of the Cross event in cold Rome
Instead of presiding over the torch-led procession at the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the hotel where he lives in the Vatican.
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Pope Francis washes the feet of young prisoners in Holy Thursday rite, telling them: ‘Any of us’ can fall into sin.
In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” can fall into sin.
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Podcast: Pope Francis’ bounce back to ministry for Holy Week
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss how the pope bounced back from bronchitis.
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Pope Francis tell priests at chrism Mass: Be agents of harmony, not division
Building harmony is not only a way of improving the church or being polite, Pope Francis told them, but “an intrinsic demand of the life of the Spirit.”
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Pope Francis: This Holy Week, do some spring cleaning for your soul
“Look at the closet of your soul—how many useless things you have, how many stupid illusions,” the pope said. “Let us return to simplicity, to things that are true, that don’t need to be made-up.”
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Balenciaga Pope: What an A.I.-generated puffer coat reveals about Francis’ appeal
Pope Francis didn’t wear Balenciaga. I can’t imagine he ever will. But if we keep our eyes peeled, it won’t be long before we see him do something just as eye-popping to reveal once again to us the challenging, merciful love of God.