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By David Agren
NEW YORK (CNS) — Pope Francis encouraged an audience of Catholic school students and immigrants to live with joy and dare to dream. He also highlighted the immigrant experience — in a way children could understand, comparing it to seeking acceptance and making friends in school, not always an easy place for them to fit […]
National
By Cindy Wooden
NEW YORK (CNS) — Seeing New York for the first time in his 78 years of life, Pope Francis said he knew Madison Square Garden was an important gathering place for sporting events and concerts. For him, it was transformed into a chapel in the heart of the Big Apple. True peace in a big […]
Pope Francis
By Dennis Sadowski
PHILADELPHIA – Pope Francis encouraged Pennsylvania’s Catholic clergy and women and men religious to challenge young people to develop “high ideals, generosity of spirit and love for Christ and the church.” In his first Mass in Philadelphia, Pope Francis recalled St. Katherine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who entered religious life, formed a religious community and […]
National
By Cindy Wooden
NEW YORK – Honoring both the pain and the strength of the families of those who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and drawing on the pools of water that are part of the site’s memorial, Pope Francis spoke about tears and quenching the world’s longing for peace. “The water we see flowing […]
National
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
After a hectic few days in Washington, Pope Francis made a relatively low-key exit to New York from Joint Base Andrews Sept. 24. Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, Military Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Carlo Maria Vigano, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, dozens of schoolchildren from the Washington Archdiocese, […]
Local
By Ann M. Augherton
For the three nights leading up to the pope’s arrival in Washington, Iris Chavez, 25, worked on a tilma for her 5-month-old son Loukas to wear to see the pope along Constitution Avenue. She used an apron, stamped the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe on it, and attached brightly colored flowers. “Ever since we […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
UNITED NATIONS – Dealing with war, development, the economy or environmental concerns, bureaucrats and diplomats always must remember that the lives of real children, women and men are at stake, Pope Francis told the United Nations. Helping to celebrate the organization’s 70th anniversary, Pope Francis visited its headquarters Sept. 25 and pleaded with government leaders […]
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By Katie Scott
Pope Francis, in his historic address to Congress Sept. 24, encouraged and prodded the most powerful nation in the world to dig deep into its soul and act according to its greatest – if not ever-present – convictions. Using four figures from U.S. history, two of them lesser-known Catholics, the pope covered a range of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – The past, the promise and the potential of the United States must not be smothered by bickering and even hatred at a time when the U.S. people and indeed the world need a helping hand, Pope Francis told the U.S. Congress. Making history by being the first pope ever to address a joint […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis made a previously unannounced 15-minute stop Sept. 23 at a Washington residence operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor, where he met with about 45 sisters. Sister Constance Veit, communications director for the Little Sisters, said the pope talked individually with each sister, ranging in age from novices to 102-year-old […]
