May God, who through water and the Holy Spirit has given us a new birth in Christ, be with you all. All make the following or some other suitable reply: And with your spirit. As circumstances ...

Speaking at the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made urgent appeals ...

Cuba said this week that it was releasing 553 prisoners “in the spirit of" Francis' 2025 Holy Year and had informed the pope of its decision ... Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan ... Cuba said this week that it was ...

The Gospel is a word of compassion, mercy, light, freedom and joy, Pope Francis said. The Gospel "calls us to become ...

8, enabling it to go into effect shortly thereafter. The document quoted from a 2005 Vatican publication titled "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to ...

An unholy war is brewing in the Catholic Church, said Paola Totaro in The Australian (Sydney). While "Conclave", a film about the "murky web of curial politics", is getting Oscar-season buzz, in ...

on the recent Vatican financial scandals and how the relations between the U.S. and the Holy See have developed under Pope Francis. “In the Vatican, they know Trump 2.0 might be very different ...

Pope Francis at the Angelus spoke of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp: ...

A holy year is an opportunity to start fresh with ... Meeting more than 7,000 pilgrims who filled the Vatican audience hall or pressed against crowd-control barriers outside, Francis began a ...

From the window of the Apostolic Palace Bergoglio ... a moment when the heavens ‘opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, like a dove’, with a voice that said ‘You ...

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