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Pope Francis addresses international diplomats to the Holy See on Jan. 9, 2023, in the Vatican's Blessing Hall. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jan 9, 2023 / 06:28 am (CNA).The global community is engaged in a "third world war" marked by heightened fear, conflict, and risk of nuclear violence, but a recommitment to "truth, justice, solidarity and freedom" can provide a pathway to peace, Pope Francis told international diplomats Monday.Citing the ongoing war in Ukraine, but...

Four Israeli families who have been fighting to see their children for eight and a half years met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Dec. 21, 2022. Two young men are still alive, kidnapped by Hamas. Two others died, but their bodies were not returned, thus preventing a proper burial, one of the Jewish mitzvahs. Three are Jews, and one is Muslim. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Jan 8, 2023 / 03:00 am (CNA).When, during his Christmas Urbi et Orbi message, Pope Francis once again launched the appeal ...

A male Border Patrol agent in La Joya, Texas, speaks in November 2021 with a Honduran man holding his daughter and waiting to be transported to a processing center after turning himself in to seek asylum. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jan 8, 2023 / 09:48 am (CNA).On the eve of President Joe Bidens scheduled Sunday visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to meet with local officials and border enforcement agents, the U.S. Catholic bishops announced their opposition to the administrations recent crackdow...

Pope Benedict XVI on May 13, 2010 / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.ukRome, Italy, Jan 8, 2023 / 00:01 am (CNA).There are currently 37 Doctors of the Church, four women and 33 men, spanning the course of Church history, from Irenaeus of Lyon in the 3rd century to Thérèse of Lisieux in the 19th century.It is a classically Catholic pastime to speculate who might be named the next member of this extraordinary and extraordinarily exclusive club. Long before his passing, the name Pope Benedict XVI has ...

Pope Francis baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Jan. 8, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Jan 8, 2023 / 03:20 am (CNA).Pope Francis baptized babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and encouraged parents to teach their children to celebrate their baptism anniversary each year.On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Jan. 8, the pope baptized 13 babies and presided over Mass beneath Michelangelos frescoes. In a brief off-the-cuff homily, the pope said that baptism is like a rebirth in...

The coffin of Pope Benedict XVI is prepared for interment in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica on Jan. 5, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jan 7, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).Benedict XVI was buried in the crypt under St. Peters Basilica after his funeral Mass on Jan. 5.The late popes coffin was interred in the former burial place of both St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII, whose remains were moved to the upper part of the basilica at the time of their beatifications.The coffin of Pope Benedic...

Pope Francis delivers the Angelus address on Jan. 8, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Jan 8, 2023 / 04:55 am (CNA).In his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis said that Gods justice is often misunderstood as mere punishment when in reality it "raises us up" by "freeing us from the snares of evil."On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Jan. 8, the pope said that "Jesus reveals Gods justice."Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace, he said: "Ver...

John Paul Uebbing's big moment. / File Photo/CNA.Vatican City, Jan 8, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).The infant son of former Catholic News Agency editor David Uebbing received a farewell kiss on his forehead from Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 27, 2013, at the plaza of St. Peters Basilica before the popes final general audience."To see him today in the final hours of his papacy and to have him hold my son in his arms was a special kind of blessing, and a consolation from the Lord," Uebbings wi...

U.S. President Joe Biden signs the condolence book for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2023. / Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty ImagesBoston, Mass., Jan 6, 2023 / 10:40 am (CNA).President Joe Biden visited the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C., known as the apostolic nunciature, on Thursday to sign a book of condolences for Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31. After being greeted by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the ...