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Catholic minorities can still change the world, pope says

Visiting the small Catholic communities in Bulgaria and North Macedonia offered an opportunity to encourage the faithful to remember God’s miracle of feeding a multitude with just a few loaves and fishes, Pope Francis said.

• Christian community a place of welcome, solidarity, pope says

  

  By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
  Published June 26, 2019

  To be part of a Christian community is to belong to a group of believers who shun selfishness and give witness to God’s love by loving and caring for one another, Pope Francis said at his June 26 general audience.

• Papal document addresses challenges of evangelizing in the digital age

  

  By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
  Published April 3, 2019

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—While digital communications and social media can be used as a tool of evangelization and a place of dialogue with others, they also can be lonely environments where young people fall prey to humanity’s worst vices, Pope Francis wrote. In his new apostolic exhortation to young people, “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), the pope […] Full Story

• ‘Spiritual combat’ must be part of fight against sex abuse, pope says

  

  By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
  Published April 1, 2019

  ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME (CNS) — To fight clerical sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must have clear laws and procedures, but it also must engage in “spiritual combat,” because it is obvious the devil is at work, Pope Francis said. After the Vatican summit on abuse in February, the pope said, he read […] Full Story