Tag: Pope Francis
‘The most important and beautiful day of history’: Pope Francis on...
“Let the Church and the world rejoice, for today our hopes no longer come up against the wall of death"
Full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi blessing for Easter...
“Urbi et Orbi” is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year on Easter Sunday, Christmas, and other special occasions
Full Text: Pope Francis’ homily for Easter Vigil 2023 at the...
Full text of Pope Francis' Easter Vigil homily delivered on April 8, 2023, in St. Peter's Basilica
Papal preacher warns against relativism and ‘vortex of nihilism’
With relativism in the fields of ethics, philosophy, art, and religion, “nothing more is solid; everything is liquid, or even vaporous”
Pope Francis skips Good Friday procession due to cold weather
Some 20,000 people took part in the ceremony at the Colosseum in Rome, which was dedicated to victims of conflict
Pope Francis washes feet of young inmates on Holy Thursday 2023
Pope Francis said he will repeat Jesus’ gesture of the washing of the feet as a reminder of the lesson to help one another
Pope Francis celebrates ‘the birthday of the priesthood’ with 1,800 priests
Pope Francis thanked the priests for the “hidden good” that they do, often “with great effort and little recognition"
Pope Francis’ advice for Holy Week: Look to the cross, our...
The pope noted how many people today who walk down the street appear sad, focused “only on their cell phones, but without peace, without hope”
Pope Francis revises the penal law of the Eastern Catholic Churches
The April 5 motu proprio on the law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Vocare Peccatores, takes effect June 29
Pope Francis to wash juvenile prisoners’ feet this Holy Thursday
In 2013, Francis washed 12 young prisoners’ feet — those of two girls and 10 boys
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