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• 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.

• Jesus renews life, hope even when all seems lost, pope says

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published March 27, 2023

  Jesus can offer everyone hope and new life, Pope Francis said before praying the Angelus with some 35,000 visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square March 26.

• To see God’s beauty, just look around you, pope says

  

  By JUSTIN McCLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published March 6, 2023

  The light and beauty of Christ is an invitation to recognize God’s love in life’s ordinary moments, Pope Francis said at the Angelus March 5.

• Pope saddened by ‘huge loss of life’ after earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

  

  By JUSTIN McLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published February 7, 2023

  Pope Francis expressed his “spiritual closeness” and “solidarity” with those affected by a pair of powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria Feb. 6.

• At funeral, pope remembers Benedict’s ‘wisdom, tenderness, devotion’

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published January 5, 2023

  Pope Benedict XVI “spread and testified to” the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered Jan. 5 for his predecessor’s funeral Mass.

• Thousands pay last respects to Pope Benedict in St. Peter’s Basilica

  

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

  A quiet hush covered the vast expanse of St. Peter’s Square even though it was filled with thousands of people winding their way around the colonnade into St. Peter’s Basilica to pay last respects to the late Pope Benedict XVI.

• Pope Benedict: Eight years as pope capped long ministry as teacher of faith

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published December 31, 2022

  Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, nearly 10 years after leaving the papacy to live a life of prayer and study.

• Pope Francis says retired Pope Benedict is ‘very sick’

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published December 28, 2022

  Saying that retired Pope Benedict XVI was “very sick,” Pope Francis has asked people to offer special prayers for him.

• Listen to the cries of the newborn Prince of Peace, pope says on Christmas

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published December 25, 2022

  With the birth of Jesus, God became flesh to share the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears of all people, especially the poor and those living daily amid danger, Pope Francis said in his Christmas message.

• Mary accompanies migrants heading north, pope says on Guadalupe feast

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published December 12, 2022

  During this “bitter time” of war, hunger, injustice and poverty, Our Lady of Guadalupe invites everyone to open their lives to her son, Jesus, and to learn to love others like he does, Pope Francis said.

• Keep the creche in Christmas, pope urges

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published December 4, 2022

  Stopping to gaze at and perhaps pray before a Nativity scene is one of the best ways to remember the real meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said.

• ‘Dream big,’ take small steps for peace each day, pope tells students

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 28, 2022

  Pope Francis told Italian students to “dream big” like St. John XXIII and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about the world of peace and justice they would like to see.

• Love the Lord by loving the poor, pope says

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 13, 2022

  Wars, famine and calamities of every kind can tempt Christians to a fear that the world is about to end; what they must do instead is act, even in a small way, to make the world a better place, Pope Francis said.

• Saints were revolutionaries who lived the beatitudes, pope says

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 1, 2022

  The multitude of men and women honored on the feast of All Saints lived according to the Eight Beatitudes, which made them decidedly out of place in the world, Pope Francis said Nov. 1 before reciting the Angelus prayer.

• Pope announces a second session for Synod of Bishops assembly

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published October 17, 2022

  Saying he did not want to rush the process of discerning how the Holy Spirit is calling the church to grow in “synodality,” Pope Francis announced Oct. 16 that the next assembly of the Synod of Bishops would take place in two sessions.

• Nicholas Le ordained a transitional deacon at St. Peter’s Basilica 

  

  By ALEXANDER BROWN, Special to the Bulletin
  Published October 16, 2022

  Nicholas “Nick” Le, a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, who has been studying in the North American College in Rome, was ordained to the transitional diaconate Sept. 29 at St. Peter’s Basilica.