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April 14, 2019

At yesterday’s Angelus, Pope Francis urged young people to “pray the rosary for peace, especially for peace in the Holy Land and in the Middle East” (full text, full video). Around 15,000 people took part in a Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem. Australian journalists and publishers will face court today over their coverage of Cardinal

Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: True triumph is found in Christ’s humility

April 14, 2019

On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis warned against the temptation of “triumphalism,” encouraging Catholics to follow Jesus’s way of humility and obedience exemplified in His Passion. “Joyful acclamations at Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, followed by his humiliation. Festive cries followed by brutal torture. This twofold mystery accompanies our entrance into Holy Week each year,” Pope Francis

Twitter can’t explain why it restricted Mother Teresa abortion quote

April 14, 2019

Before the crowd at an April 10 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, displayed a billboard containing a tweet of a Mother Teresa quote, “Abortion is profoundly anti-woman. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.” Alongside the quote was a