Pope Francis appoints apostolic visitor for Ethiopian Catholics in US and Canada
July 2, 2020
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The Pope named Fr Tesfaye Woldemariam Fesuh as apostolic visitor of Ge’ez Rite Catholics in the two countries
Pope Francis offers condolences to Benedict XVI following his brother’s death
July 2, 2020
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The Pope expressed his “heartfelt sympathy” after the death of Mgr Georg Ratzinger on July 1 at the age of 96
Pope Francis: ‘There is no true love without the cross’
June 29, 2020
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There is no true love without the cross, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on Sunday.
Pope Francis ‘appreciates’ the ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishop after private audience
June 29, 2020
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Bishop Georg Bätzing says he feels ‘strengthened’ to ‘continue on the path we have taken’
After St Junipero Serra statue is torn down, San Francisco archbishop says protests being ‘hijacked’ by violence
June 21, 2020
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After the toppling of a saint’s statue in San Francisco, the city’s archbishop said Saturday that important protests over racial
Cardinal Sarah remains head of Vatican liturgy department after 75th birthday
June 19, 2020
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Pope Francis has reportedly asked Sarah to remain as prefect of the liturgy department for the time being
Pope Francis praises WW2-era Portuguese diplomat on ‘Day of Conscience’
June 18, 2020
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Pope Francis praised Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who helped tens of thousands of Jews and others to flee from advancing Nazi forces
Beatification date set for computer programming teen Carlo Acutis
June 15, 2020
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Acutis, who died of leukaemia at the age of 15, offered his suffering for the pope and for the Church
Pope Francis: God awaits us in our darkest moments
June 10, 2020
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‘We all have an appointment in the night with God, in the night of our lives,’ Pope Francis said
US Vatican cardinal to lead prayers for George Floyd
June 5, 2020
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Cardinal Kevin Farrell will preside at a prayer service at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Trump signs order on international religious freedom after JPII shrine visit
June 2, 2020
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The order calls religious freedom “a moral and national security imperative” and declares it “a foreign policy priority of the United States.”
JPII shrine says Trump visit long scheduled, while Archbishop Gregory opposes visit
June 2, 2020
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Washington’s archbishop called Trump’s visit to the shrine “reprehensible”