By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service AWALI, Bahrain — Traveling as a “sower of peace” to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis further strengthened ties with the Muslim world and witnessed the joy and vitality of its minority and predominately expatriate Christian population. His message promoting the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and ethnicities also […]
Pope tells Putin: ‘Stop this spiral of violence and death’
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — With “rivers of blood and tears” still flowing in Ukraine and with the increasing threat of the use of nuclear weapons, Pope Francis begged Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Stop this spiral of violence and death.” With the situation being “so serious, devastating and threatening,” the pope […]
Francis joins sports summit in call for more inclusion
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican synod hall became a stand full of cheering fans, pumping fists, clapping and shouting encouragement as instructed by Tim Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics, who led some 200 people in a group exercise. “Imagine you’re in the stands … and there’s a track behind […]
Help the poor and the planet
Pope Francis urges 1,000 young adult economists, entrepreneurs, financial advisers, students, scholars and scientists from 120 countries to fight inequality and injustice By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Acknowledging how young people have been given a world marked by inequality, injustice, war and environmental degradation, Pope Francis urged those looking for solutions to […]
Francis in Kazakhstan
Pope says religions must be purified of extremism By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — As war, violence and extremism in countries around the world threaten the lives of countless men, women and children, religions must rise above differences and be examples of peace and harmony, Pope Francis said. “It is time […]
British Catholics, pope pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth
By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service MANCHESTER, England — Catholics in the U.K. paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death Sept. 8 and the end of a reign that lasted more than 70 years. Pope Francis sent a telegram addressed “To His Majesty the King, Charles III,” her son who immediately ascended to […]
‘The smiling pope’ showed God’s goodness, Francis says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Beatifying Blessed John Paul I, Pope Francis praised the late pope for showing the world God’s goodness and for living the Gospel without compromise. “Our new blessed lived that way: in the joy of the Gospel, without compromises, loving to the very end,” the pope said. […]
Francis in Canada: Trip shows tenacity of Canada’s Indigenous and pope
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service IQALUIT, Nunavut — At the end of his six-day visit to Canada, Pope Francis, sitting in a wheelchair, said goodbye to Chief Wilton Littlechild, also sitting in a wheelchair. Littlechild, a 78-year-old lawyer, survivor of abuse in a residential school and former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty […]
Interview: Pope condemns abortion, says he’s not resigning
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In a wide-ranging interview with the Reuters news agency, Pope Francis condemned abortion, dismissed the idea that he’s preparing to resign and said he still hopes to be able to visit Russia and Ukraine in the fall. Pope Francis also told Philip Pullella, the Reuters’ Vatican […]
Pope’s Canada trip: Beginning and ending with ‘sorry’
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness. In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonization” by uprooting Indigenous children from their […]
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