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God has the same love for all, pope says at Angelus

People often are tempted to think their relationship with God is some kind of commercial transaction where they buy God’s grace with their hard work, Pope Francis said at his Sunday Angelus.

• In letter to bishops, Vatican asks all faithful to pray for the synod 

  

  By JUSTIN MCLELLAN, Catholic News Service  
  Published September 22, 2023

  The Vatican is asking all baptized people, regardless of whether they will be in Rome, to participate in October’s assembly of the Synod of Bishops with their prayers. 

• Pope hails Ulma family as ‘ray of light in the darkness’

  

  By PAULINA GUZIK, OSV News
  Published September 13, 2023

  In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa Sept. 10. They were killed by German occupants of Poland for giving shelter to eight Jews in their home.

• What the papacy of John Paul I, ‘The September Pope,’ could have looked like 

  

  By RUSSELL SHAW, OSV News
  Published September 7, 2023

  When the cardinals gathered 45 years ago to choose a successor to Pope Paul VI, they wanted—not unreasonably—a smiling pope. In the person of Cardinal Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice, they got one.