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At jubilee, Pope Francis urges Pentecostals, Catholic charismatics to ‘walk, work together’

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost. “In a way both creative and unexpected,” the pope said, the Holy Spirit “generates diversity, for in every […] Full Story

• New path to sainthood: Giving up one’s life in heroic service

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published August 3, 2017

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis has approved a fourth pathway to possible sainthood—giving one’s life in a heroic act of loving service to others. In a new apostolic letter, the pope approved new norms allowing for candidates to be considered for sainthood because of the heroic way they freely risked their lives and died prematurely because […] Full Story

• Christians fight evil with love, sacrifice, never violence, pope says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published July 6, 2017

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Christians are called to detach themselves from power, reject violence and sacrifice themselves for God and others out of love, Pope Francis said. Christians must live the way Christ chose to: not as “persecutors, but persecuted; not arrogant, but meek; not as snake-oil salesmen, but subservient to the truth; not impostors, but honest,” […] Full Story

• Pope asks church to hear cry of the poor and take action

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published June 23, 2017

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God created the heavens and the earth for all; yet sadly some have erected barriers, walls and fences, betraying the original gift meant for all humanity, with none […] Full Story