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• Pope prays for ‘just peace’ in Middle East and Ukraine

  

  By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
  Published November 8, 2023

  As the wars, violence and deaths continue in Ukraine and in the Holy Land, Pope Francis again urged people to pray for peace. “Let us think about and pray for populations suffering from war,” he said Nov. 8 at the end of his weekly general audience.

• All Souls’ Day: Pope Francis remembers lives lost to war

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published November 2, 2023

  On the feast of All Souls, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Rome War Cemetery, saying that remembrance is part of hope.

• Synod synthesis shows agreement, divergences, including on ‘synodality’

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 2, 2023

  A report summarizing discussions at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops said the church may need more welcoming pastoral approaches, especially to people who feel excluded, but also acknowledged fears of betraying traditional church teachings and practices.

• ‘Laudate Deum’: Planet mirrors a deeply flawed view of human life and activity

  

  By GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV News
  Published October 4, 2023

  Pope Francis warns the clock is ticking on the dangers of climate change–and both a paradigm shift and practical action are critically needed to avert looming disasters in nature and human society. The pope released his new apostolic exhortation “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”) Oct. 4.

• U.S. delegates say prayer is key to synod    

  

  By MARIA WIERING, OSV News 
  Published October 4, 2023

  Bishop Kevin Rhoades is one of 14 U.S. bishops participating in the synod’s Oct. 4-29 general assembly meeting. Ten other voting nonbishop delegates appointed by Pope Francis also are attending from the United States and Canada, including four American laypeople.

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

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published September 25, 2023

  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. 

• Guadalupe shows how faith is shared simply, with respect, pope says

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published August 23, 2023

  “As Mary shows, the Gospel is communicated in simplicity,” Pope Francis said at his Aug. 23 general audience. “Our Lady always chooses those who are simple.”

• Jesus does not abandon individuals or the church, pope says at Angelus

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published August 14, 2023

  Having faith does not mean there will be no difficulties in life, either for individuals or for the church as a whole, Pope Francis said, but it does mean knowing that Jesus is there to give courage.

• Pope to young people: To tackle life’s ups and downs, look to the elderly

  

  By JUSTIN MCLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published July 26, 2023

  The Gospel calls Christians to bring the elderly to the center of their lives and away from the margins of families, politics and financial markets that banish them as “unprofitable waste” in society, Pope Francis said.

• Pope names 21 cardinals, including U.S.-born Archbishop Prevost, and apostolic nuncio

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published July 9, 2023

  Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals, including U.S.-born Archbishop Robert F. Prevost, who took the helm at the Dicastery for Bishops in April, and French Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States. The pope announced the names after his recitation of the Angelus.

• Be modern prophets by guiding others to the Holy Spirit, pope asks

  

  By JUSTIN MCLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published July 3, 2023

  Christians are called to be modern-day prophets who guide others to see the Holy Spirit at work in everyday life and not to be superstitious people, Pope Francis said July 2 at the Angelus.

• Pope returns to Vatican, ‘is better than before,’ chief surgeon says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published June 16, 2023

  Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after a nine-day hospital stay and intends to go ahead with his planned trips abroad in August and September, according to his chief surgeon.

• Pope thanks well-wishers for prayers; Vatican says recovery going smoothly

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published June 9, 2023

  Pope Francis thanked people for prayers and messages of affection following his hernia surgery, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, in a statement the evening of June 9. Pope Francis spent the afternoon working and set aside time for prayer, and in the evening, he received the Eucharist.

• Pope to undergo surgery for hernia, expected to remain in hospital

  

  By JUSTIN McCLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published June 7, 2023

  Pope Francis was scheduled to undergo surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital June 7 to treat a hernia that had developed at an incision of a previous operation, the Vatican said.

• Those with political power must be ‘servants’ to citizens, pope says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published May 30, 2023

  The greatest way of life is serving others, and those in political power must see themselves as servants, too, Pope Francis said during a May 29 ceremony.

• Holy Spirit defends, consoles those who call on his help, pope says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published May 15, 2023

  Before reciting the midday “Regina Coeli” prayer May 14 with about 25,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis spoke about the day’s Gospel reading in which Jesus speaks about the Holy Spirit as an advocate and consoler.

• World Youth Day helps inspire young people to serve others, pope says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published May 2, 2023

  World Youth Day is an antidote against indifference, isolation and lethargy, Pope Francis said in the preface of a new book by a Portuguese journalist.

• Pope prays that Easter joy would break through gloom of sin, war, strife

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published April 9, 2023

  On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.”

• Pope hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published March 29, 2023

  After having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection that will be treated in the hospital for several days, the Vatican press office said.