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By Laura Ieraci
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Pope Francis threw away a prepared text and, to the delight of tens of thousands of people on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, spoke from the heart about the challenges and love that come with being part of a family. After listening to testimony from six families from various continents Sept. 26, he […]
National
By Cindy Wooden
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — While pilgrims in Philadelphia put up with a long weekend of lines and security checks at the papal venues, the pope reached out to a group of people whose lives are lines and security checks for years at a time. Pope Francis spent about an hour at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. He […]
Local
By Mike Flach
Missionhurst Father Leo J. Zonneveld, who served for 32 years at Precious Blood Church in Culpeper, had “the heart of a zealous missionary” who provided prudence and balance to his community and the Arlington Diocese. The native of Holland died Sept. 19 at the age of 81. The Precious Blood community came out in droves […]
National
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 […]
