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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden and Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The eight cardinals named by Pope Francis to begin work on ways to reorganize the Roman Curia are predominantly active archbishops of very large archdioceses, but they also have a wide range of pastoral and organizational experiences and skills. The Vatican announced the members of the group April 13. The eight are: […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Never give in to the devil’s pessimism, discouragement and bitterness, Pope Francis said; Christians need to share the Gospel message with joy and courage because it will truly answer people’s deepest needs. Young people also need the wisdom and knowledge of older people, whose insight is like “fine wine that gets better […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Without faith in Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, the church is nothing more than a “pitiful NGO,” Pope Francis said in his first homily as pope. “When one does not confess Christ,” he said, “one confesses the worldliness of the devil.” The pope spoke at Mass March 14 in the Sistine Chapel, […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Catholics who participate in events connected with the 2012-2013 Year of Faith can receive a special indulgence, the Vatican said. Pope Benedict XVI authorized the granting of a plenary, or full, indulgence in order to highlight the Year of Faith and encourage the “reading, or rather, the pious meditation on” the documents […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square and adjoining streets March 17 to hear Pope Francis deliver his first Angelus, saying prayers at noon and greeting pilgrims not only from Rome but from around the world. The crowd, which nearly filled the square an hour before the pope appeared high […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – The modern world is a latter-day Babel, where arrogance inspired by technological progress leads people to play God and sets them against each other, a predicament from which people can escape only through divinely inspired humility and love, said Pope Benedict XVI. The pope made his remarks during his homily May 27, […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – In his first appointment to the curia, Pope Francis named the superior of the Franciscans as secretary of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders. Archbishop-designate Jose Rodriguez Carballo, 59, will hold the number two post at the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and announced a consistory for their formal induction on Feb. 18. Among those named were Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, a former archbishop of Baltimore who now serves as grand master of the […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In an effort to aid reconciliation attempts with traditionalist Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI has named U.S. Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia to fill a newly created post of vice president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei.” “The appointment of a high-ranking prelate to this position is a sign of the Holy […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis responded to the bombings in Boston by invoking peace for the souls of the departed, consolation for the suffering and strength for emergency and medical personnel. In a message sent to Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said Pope Francis was “deeply grieved by the loss of […]
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