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Archbishop Georg Gänswein / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, Jun 15, 2023 / 04:31 am (CNA).The Vatican confirmed Thursday that Pope Francis has asked Archbishop Georg Gänswein to return to Germany as of July 1.The longtime private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI has been told to return to his home diocese of Freiburg in southwest Germany "for the time being," according to a brief statement June 15.The Vatican also said Gänswein's role as prefect of the Papal Household concluded on Feb. 28. It did not indicate that he had been given any new assignment.The news about the 66-year-ol...

Pope Francis recovering well from operation

Here is a timeline charting recent health concerns of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis prays at his Wednesday audience in St. Peter's Square on April 12, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, Jun 4, 2023 / 06:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of a train crash in India that killed at least 275 people."I am close to the injured and their families. May our heavenly Father welcome the souls of the deceased into his kingdom," he said in his Angelus address on June 4. Hundreds of people were injured in the crash in the Balasore district of Odisha state, India's worst rail crash in over two decades, according to Reuters. The crash was caus...

Pope Francis presides over Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on May 28, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, May 28, 2023 / 05:15 am (CNA).On the Solemnity of Pentecost, Pope Francis urged Catholics to invoke the Holy Spirit daily to bring harmony to a divided world, a polarized Church, and to broken hearts.Speaking in St. Peter's Basilica, the pope explained that the role of the Holy Spirit, both at the beginning of the creation of the world and at all times, is to make "created realities pass from disorder to order" and "from confusion to harmony.""In our wo...