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Pope Francis
Pope Francis on Lent – The Expected and Unexpected
I should not have been but I was surprised by some of the things Pope Francis included in his Lenten Letter 2020
Pope Francis and Ozanam on Systemic Change
What do Pope Francis (2020), Pope Pius XI (1927) and Bl. Frederic Ozanam (1848) have in common?
“Sell your desk!” – Francis, the Vincentian
Pope Francis told the Archbishop in charge of the Vatican’s charity, “Don’t wait for people to come ringing. You need to go out and look for the poor.'”
What Francis highlighted about the two Popes
In his homily during the canonization Pope Francis highlighted things he learned from the two saints according to RomeReports POPE FRANCIS "These were two men of courage, filled with the parrhesia of the Holy Spirit, and they bore witness before the Church and the...
Pope invites the world “Come and See”
“Come and see!”: Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness. "That is why we tell everyone: “Come and see!” In every human situation, marked by frailty, sin and death, the Good News is no mere matter of words, but a testimony to...
Pope’s Easter Vigil – Gospel begins with a journey
"Why did Jesus ask the women to go to Galilee" asks Pope Francis in his homily at Easter Vigil. "Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To return there, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked...
Resurrection is not a happy ending movie
Asia News reports Pope: The Resurrection "is not a happy ending in a movie" but "a humble victory of God, that humanly looks like a failure" The story continues.... Two children join Francis on the back of his jeep. The two, both with a white cap, and smiles somewhat...
Pope Francis prays the Way of the Cross
Every year, the pope asks a person or group of people to write the meditations that are read aloud during the nighttime torch-lit Good Friday ceremony, which he presides over. For 2014, Pope Francis picked Italian Archbishop Giancarlo Maria Bregantini of...
Washing the feet of women
Women and men were both participating in the ancient rite long before Pope Francis arrived on the scene. An article in April 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 4, page 46) provides the history. In 1955, Pius XII reformed the liturgy to make foot washing part...
Pope’s encyclical to be on the environment
The Vatican, through the pope's press spokesman, announced that Pope Francis is working on his first encyclical, dealing with the environment. Not surprising that he chose this topic since it is a theme he has often broached. On March 16, 2013, Francis stated he chose...
US Bishops celebrate Mass at border
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, joined by bishops on the border, will travel to Nogales, Arizona, March 30-April 1 to tour the U.S.-Mexico border and celebrate Mass on behalf of the close to 6,000 migrants who have died in the...
