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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“This is what the pope is asking of us,” Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre said. “We are not only defenders of ideas, because if I defend only one idea, whoever disagrees with me becomes my enemy.”
Pope Francis and Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, pose for a photo with the city's Catholics gathered outside Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Sept. 2, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Without daily prayer and respect for the structure and unity of the church, “our strength will fail, and our pastoral work will risk becoming an empty delivery of services, a roster of duties that end up inducing only weariness and frustration,” Pope Francis said in Ulaanbaatar on Sept. 2.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said Ukrainians were shocked when Pope Francis told Russian Catholic youths to be proud of their heritage and cited two historic Russian leaders that, the archbishop said, are “the worst example of imperialism and extreme Russian nationalism.”
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Dorothy Day had a very realistic picture of the Catholic Church, the pope said. “To her the church frequently seemed to be on the side of the rich and the property owners, and often unaware of the need for real social justice.”
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“I am writing a second part to Laudato Si’ to update it on current problems,” Pope Francis told the lawyers Aug. 21 during a meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“Praise increases joy. Praise is like a ladder: it leads hearts upward,” Pope Francis said. “Praise elevates souls and defeats the temptation to give up.”
Slovak Archbishop Cyril Vasil of Košice is seen in this file photo taken at the Vatican in November 2013 when he was serving as secretary of the then-Congregation for Eastern Churches. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Controversy and deep division continue in an Indian archdiocese over the direction the priest faces during the celebration of the liturgy.
The pope stands in front of an ambulance that will go to Ukraine, blessing it.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Donations to the annual Peter’s Pence collection were down in 2022, but the amount of money the fund distributed increased significantly thanks to the proceeds of property sales, the Vatican said.
A stained glass window depicting a Black Catholic nun
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis has declared venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the first Catholic order of African American nuns, and Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the children who saw the Fátima vision.
Archbishop Gallagher virtually addresses the U.N.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
In a message to the U.N. Security Council, Pope Francis expressed opposition to war: “We are all brothers and sisters, journeying on the same earth, dwelling in a single common home.”