The pope prayed that “all who honor his memory will be confirmed in the resolve to reject the ways of violence and overcome evil with good.”
Pope Francis
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Albany diocese places ‘hold’ on all Traditional Latin Masses except at Jesuit martyrs’ shrine
The Diocese of Albany has placed a hold on celebrations of Mass with the 1962 Roman Missal, which affects two parishes in the region. Latin Mass with the 2002 missal can still be performed.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Cardinal McElroy responds to his critics on sexual sin, the Eucharist, and LGBT and divorced/remarried Catholics
Pope Francis is calling us to appreciate the vital interplay between the pastoral and doctrinal aspects of church teaching when it comes to sexual sin and the reception of the Eucharist.
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Cardinal Gregory: Pope Francis makes Americans in both parties ‘uncomfortable’
Cardinal Wilton Gregory said that Pope Francis has made it difficult for Americans to be comfortable with just one aspect of Catholic Social Teaching—“you’ve got to have them all.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis says Vatican II was ‘a visit of God to his church’ in new interview
“The [Second Vatican] Council was a visit of God to his church. It was one of those things that God produces in history through holy people,” Pope Francis said in an interview published in Belgium on Feb. 28.
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Cardinal Cupich: Critics of Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions should listen to JPII
Like St. John Paul II, Pope Francis takes seriously that the restoration of the liturgy was the result of the movement of the Holy Spirit.
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Pope Francis will travel to Hungary at the end of April
At the end of April, Pope Francis will travel to Hungary, where he will meet with government officials, refugees, scholars and young people in the capital of Budapest.
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Pope Francis says he does not ‘condemn capitalism’ in new book
“I do not condemn capitalism in the way some attribute to me. Nor am I against the market [economy],” Pope Francis stated in El Pastor, a new book by two Argentine journalists.
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Podcast: Pope Francis doubles down on Latin Mass restrictions
This week, Pope Francis again confirmed restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, making it clear that permission to celebrate the pre-Vatican II liturgy is reserved to the Vatican.
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Pope Francis: ‘The ashes remind us who we are.’
“The rite of the imposition of ashes serves as the beginning of this return journey. It exhorts us to do two things: to return to the truth about ourselves and to return to God and to our brothers and sisters.”