Lengthy, abstract homilies are “a disaster,” so preaching should be limited to 10 minutes, Pope Francis said to diocesan liturgical directors on Jan. 20.
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Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis wishes “peace and every good” to all those celebrating the Lunar New Year
“On this joyful occasion,” Pope Francis said he also wished to express his “spiritual closeness to all those who are going through moments of trial caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Unpacking the controversies surrounding Cardinals Pell and Ouellet
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell dive into information revealed about the late Cardinal George Pell and new insights in the case of Cardinal Marc Ouellet.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pope Francis asks theologians to remember the marginalized. Here’s how one global project is responding.
In 2021 the Vatican launched a unique global theology project: Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries. What can we learn from those interviewed?
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: What should we do for people who leave the church? Jesus shows us the way.
In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose “pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away.”
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis prays for victims of church bombing in Congo two weeks before visit
Authorities say Sunday’s bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.
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Funeral for Cardinal Pell, critic and close advisor of Pope Francis, held at Vatican
Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The day Pope Francis welcomed community organizers from the Southwest to the papal residence
Our leaders spoke to their development as public persons, worthy of recognition in civil society and local democracy.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Pope Benedict and Pope Francis wanted to change the same thing: all of us.
What unites Benedict and Francis is their common fidelity to God calling us to conversion.
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Cardinal George Pell’s fraught legacy: Pope Francis critic and financial czar
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss Cardinal Pell and his legacy, Cardinal Zen’s meeting with Pope Francis, and Archbishop Gänswein’s new tell-all book.