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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican launched a new “Pope App” on the eve of the release of the pope’s World Communications Day message, which is dedicated to social networks as important spaces for evangelization. The new app provides live streaming of papal events and video feeds from the Vatican’s six webcams. It sends out alerts […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Germans are known for being punctual, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Pope Benedict XVI was the first person signed up for World Youth Day 2013. Registration officially opened Aug. 28, and, according to organizers, the pope was the first pilgrim to be registered for the event, which will be […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – From the moment he was elected pope at the age of 78 in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI has kept a schedule that appeared light compared to that of Blessed John Paul II, but busy for a man who already had a pacemaker and who wanted to retire to study, write and pray […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – In one of his last public appearances, Pope Benedict XVI told an overflow crowd in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24 that his upcoming retirement does not mean he is abandoning the church, but that he will be serving it in a new way, through prayer and meditation. At noon, the pope appeared […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – The Clementine Hall is traditionally the place where cardinals bid farewell to popes at the end of a pontificate, but usually when the pope in question is lying in state before his funeral. But on Feb. 28, hours before resigning from the papacy, Pope Benedict XVI briefly addressed the College of Cardinals, […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The feast of All Saints calls on Catholics to see the church as the communion of saints – as Christ meant it to be – and not to focus on it as an earthly institution with members who sometimes sin, Pope Benedict XVI said. “We are called to see the church, not […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 85th birthday with guests who treated him to Bavarian “oompah” music and folk dancing in the apostolic palace. Bavarian bishops, minister-president of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer, and a 150-person regional government delegation visited the pope April 16 in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall. They were accompanied by a […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME – A misunderstanding of the Second Vatican Council has led some Catholics to think that eucharistic adoration and Corpus Christi processions are pietistic practices that pale in importance to the celebration of Mass, Pope Benedict XVI said. “A unilateral interpretation of the Second Vatican Council has penalized this dimension” of Catholic faith, which is […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decided to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper in a Rome juvenile detention facility and wash the feet of some of the young detainees. It marks a change in venue of the previously scheduled March 28 Holy Week event from St. Peter’s Basilica to Rome’s Casal […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – With his fisherman’s ring and the pallium – the main symbols of the Petrine office – Pope Francis chose styles in continuity with two of his predecessors. The fisherman’s ring Pope Francis chose is made of gold-plated silver and is based on the same design of a papal ring handed down from […]
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