Pope Francis

The Pope Video • For People Living on the Margins

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The Pope Video • For World Youth Day

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The Pope Video • For a Eucharistic life

“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: For a Eucharistic Life.

The Pope Video • For the abolition of torture

“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: For the abolition of torture.

Pope to priests – “go to the outskirts”

During the Chrism Mass Pope Francis  asked priests to go to the “outskirts,” where they are most needed.  Words reminiscent of Frederic "Let us go to the poor". “Dear priests, may God the Father renew in us the Spirit of holiness with whom we have been anointed. May...

Pope  to jailed teens: I wash your feet to remind you that we have to help each other

Francis and Vincent on Mercy

A comparison of Pope Francis and St. Vincent on mercy Pope Francis views morality as response to God's mercy  Value of Mercy according to Vincent de Paul recently translated from a Spanish study. Pope Francis views morality as response to God's mercy . Christian...

Challenges to Francis’ Vision

Challenges to Francis’ Vision

John L. Allen Jr.  offers thoughts on Challenges to vision of a 'Poor Church for the Poor'   "How I would like a poor church for the poor," Francis said. It's a fitting sentiment for a pope who took his name from Francis of Assisi, a saint renowned for his love affair...

Francis and dialog

“Dialogue is born from an attitude of respect for the other person, from a conviction that the other person has something good to say. In order to dialogue it is necessary to know how to lower the defenses, open the doors of your house, and offer human warmth.”' From...

Widow of slum priest praises Pope

Francis "will be a great Pope": Clelia Luro de Podesta weighs in on the new pontiff Maybe to the new generation of Christian militants accompanying the slum priests, Monseñor Jerónimo Podestá's name doesn't mean much. But those who have been kicking around...

Pope  to jailed teens: I wash your feet to remind you that we have to help each other

A different kind of inaugural mass?

If the plans for his inaugural Mass -- expected to attract 1 million people to St. Peter's Square on Tuesday -- are any indication, it seems Pope Francis is setting three key themes for the event: simplicity, ecumenism and mercy, Joshua J. McElwee writes in the NCR....

Pope Francis in eyes of his parishioners

The London Guardian reports...His parishioners from the barrio of Buenos Aires where he was born and cut his political teeth say Pope Francis is likely to usher in the most radical change in the Catholic church in more than 50 years from the barrio of Buenos Aires...

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