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Pope Francis: with prayer, good can overcome evil
March 21, 2019
To pray is to believe in God’s power to replace the evil in the world with goodness, Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday. “If we pray it is because we believe that God can and wants to transform reality by overcoming evil with good,” he said on March 20. This is why it
Pope Francis: Abuse revelations are purifying the Church
March 08, 2019
God is purifying his Church through the painful revelations of the abuse scandals, so do not be discouraged, Pope Francis said on Thursday in a meeting with the priests of the Diocese of Rome. “Sin disfigures us, and we experience with pain the humiliating experience of when we ourselves or one of our brother priests
Lenten fasting is a ‘wake-up call for the soul’, Pope says
March 07, 2019
Fasting from food or other things during Lent is a chance for Catholics to reorient their material attachments, Pope Francis said on Ash Wednesday, as he urged people to slow down and turn to Christ during the penitential season. “Jesus on the wood of the cross burns with love, and calls us to a life
Stop gossiping and repent of your sins, Pope says
March 04, 2019
In a visit to a Roman parish on Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to stop gossiping and ruminating on the shortcomings of other people, and to instead focus on repenting of their own sins. “The Lord wants to teach us not to go criticizing others, not to look at the defects of others: look first
‘What have I failed to do?’ – Pope leads bishops in abuse crisis examination of conscience
February 24, 2019
Pope Francis Saturday led the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences in a penitential liturgy and examination of conscience on their failures in handling abuse within the Catholic Church. “For three days we have spoken to each other and listened to voices of victim survivors about the crimes that children and young people have suffered
In private meeting, survivors tell leaders of abuse summit: ‘We want action’
February 21, 2019
About a dozen victims of clergy sexual abuse met Wednesday with the organizing committee of the Vatican sex abuse summit, expressing their desire that the week’s meeting yield action on the part of Church leaders. Evelyn Korkmaz, an abuse victim from Canada and a member of “End Clergy Abuse” (ECA) told journalists after the February
Pope Francis asks for prayers ahead of Vatican abuse summit
February 18, 2019
Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for a meeting of the presidents of bishops’ conferences around the world, which is slated to take place later this week. During his weekly Angelus address on February 17, the pope invited Catholics to pray for the four-day event, which he said he wanted to hold “as an
McCarrick laicized
February 16, 2019
Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered this week the laicization of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop emeritus of Washington, and a once powerful figure in ecclesiastical, diplomatic, and political circles in the U.S. and around the world. The decision followed an administrative penal process conducted by the
Pope Francis: liturgy is not about ‘a past that no longer exists’ or a ‘presumed future’
February 15, 2019
The liturgy, Pope Francis said Thursday, cannot be reduced to a matter of taste, becoming the subject of ideological polarization, because it is a primary way Catholics encounter the Lord. There is a risk with the liturgy of falling into a “past that no longer exists or of escaping into a presumed future,” the pope
French nuncio under investigation for sexual assault
February 15, 2019
Bishop Luigi Ventura, apostolic nuncio to France since 2009 and a long-time Vatican diplomat, is under investigation for alleged sexual assault. The French newspaper Le Mondereported Friday that Ventura, 74, is being investigated by Paris authorities after he was accused late last month of having inappropriately touched a young male staffer of Paris City Hall.
Pope Francis names Cardinal Kevin Farrell camerlengo
February 14, 2019
Pope Francis Thursday nominated a new camerlengo, Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, and a former bishop of Dallas. The responsibilities of camerlengo include overseeing the preparations for a papal conclave and managing the administration of the Holy See in the period between a pope’s death or
Pope says UAE trip was ‘new page’ in dialogue between Christians and Muslims
February 07, 2019
Pope Francis said on Wednesday that his recent trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates was a step forward in Catholic-Muslim dialogue and promoting peace among religions. Though a brief visit, the “scattered seeds” of the February 3-5 trip will bear fruit according to God’s will, he said during the general audience on
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