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Pope condemns Israel’s attack against church, calls for end to ‘barbarity’
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published July 20, 2025The “barbarity of war” and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored during his July 20 Angelus.
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Pope prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass
By JUSTIN MCLELLAN , Catholic News Service
Published July 10, 2025“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating Mass “for the care of creation.”
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Pope leads Corpus Christi procession through Rome’s streets
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published June 22, 2025In carrying Jesus through the city streets in a Corpus Christi procession, Christians are called to be witnesses of his love, sharing both their material and spiritual gifts, Pope Leo XIV said.
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Georgians experience ‘Lord of Miracles’ on Roman Jubilee pilgrimage
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
Published June 12, 2025Members of the Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros of Georgia (Lord of Miracles Brotherhood), based at Our Lady of the Americas Mission in Lilburn, journeyed to Rome in May for the Jubilee of Confraternities
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Unity, not nationality led to Pope Leo’s election, U.S. cardinals say
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published May 14, 2025While it is interesting and perhaps a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of the U.S.-based cardinals who participated in the conclave said nationality was not a factor.
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Changing the world demands changing direction, pope writes for Way of Cross
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published April 18, 2025“Your way, Jesus, is the way of the Beatitudes. It does not crush, but cultivates, repairs and protects,” the pope wrote for the nighttime Way of the Cross ceremony on April 18 in Rome’s Colosseum.
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‘Why them and not me,’ pope asks after Holy Thursday visit to prison
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published April 17, 2025While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome’s Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17.
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Pope returns to Vatican after long hospitalization
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published March 23, 2025Immediately before leaving Rome’s Gemelli hospital after more than five weeks of treatment for double pneumonia and infections, Pope Francis greeted hundreds of people who gathered outside the hospital March 23.
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Update: Pope’s chronic lung condition plus infection are serious, doctor says
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published February 21, 2025While Pope Francis’ life is not in immediate danger, the level of multiple infections in his lungs means he is not completely “out of danger,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, director of medical and surgical sciences at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
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Pope’s therapy adjusted again after tests reveal ‘polymicrobial infection’
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published February 17, 2025On his fourth day in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis was without fever and devoted some time to work, the Vatican said.
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Top Vatican official hopes Trump will promote peace, national unity
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published November 7, 2024The Vatican secretary of state said his prayer for Donald J. Trump is that God would grant him wisdom “because that is the main virtue of those who govern according to the Bible.”
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During Lent, leave appearances aside and listen to God, says pope
By JUSTIN McLELLAN, Catholic News Service
Published February 14, 2024Lent is a time to cast aside appearances and to find God at work in the depths of the heart, Pope Francis said on Ash Wednesday.
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Pope visits pediatric oncology ward, baptizes infant during hospital stay
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published March 31, 2023Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
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Pope says Lent is time to let go of the frivolous, to choose truth, love
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published February 22, 2023What matters is the truth and the love that God sees, not what is superficial, showy and self-centered, Pope Francis said during a Mass to mark the beginning of Lent.
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Visiting his family, pope celebrates feast of Christ the King
By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Published November 21, 2022With several of his cousins and their children and grandchildren present, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the feast of Christ the King in the Asti cathedral, giving a nod to his family roots and drawing people’s attention to the root of Christian faith: the cross of Jesus.
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In early morning darkness, pope pays tribute to Immaculate Conception
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published December 8, 2021An hour before sunrise, Pope Francis set a basket of white roses at the base of a statue of the Immaculate Conception in the center of Rome, praying Mary would help all who suffer.
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Tombs of fallen soldiers are cry for peace, pope says on All Souls’ feast
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published November 2, 2021Pope Francis celebrated Mass on the feast of All Souls, Nov. 2, at the French Military Cemetery in Rome, calling their graves “a message of peace.”
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Hundreds gather outside hospital to greet recovering pope
By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
Published July 11, 2021Pilgrims and well-wishers gathered at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to greet Pope Francis as he made his first public appearance in a week after undergoing intestinal surgery.
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Accountability, transparency, due process still needed, abuse experts say
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published April 16, 2021To help foster a wider discussion on work that still must be done to safeguard minors and vulnerable people in the church, a canon law journal published a series of talks by experts regarding accountability, transparency and confidentiality in the handling of abuse allegations.
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Beatified teen showed that heaven is ‘attainable goal,’ cardinal says
By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
Published October 10, 2020Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified Oct. 10 in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi.