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Null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, Oct 11, 2022 / 05:08 am (CNA).The Vatican confirmed Tuesday that Pope Francis will join other religious leaders at a prayer service for peace at Rome's Colosseum later this month.The Oct. 25 prayer meeting is part of a three-day interreligious summit called "The Cry for Peace," organized by the Community of Sant'Egidio.Sant'Egidio has held an international conference on the subject of peace every year since 1986, when St. Pope John Paul II convened the first World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, Italy.The Catholic community of Sant'Egidio ...

Pope Francis presides at a memorial Mass of St. John XXIII, which also marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, at St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 11, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, Oct 11, 2022 / 13:04 pm (CNA).On the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to leave behind criticism and anger and to live the faith with joy."May the Church be overcome with joy. If she should fail to rejoice, she would deny her very self, for she would forget the love that begot her," the ...

Pope Francis greeting pilgrims on St. Peter's Square, Oct. 5 2022 / Daniel Ibáñez / CNARome Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 03:04 am (CNA).Pope Francis shared a spiritual life hack for discernment at his general audience on Wednesday.Speaking in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 5, the pope said that the "spiritual life, too, has its passwords." Just like on one's computer, where "we know how important it is to know the password in order to get into the programs where the most personal and valuable information is stored," the pope said that discernment requires unlocking "...

Papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, pictured in St. Peter's Basilica on June 29, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, Sep 20, 2022 / 04:58 am (CNA).A Vatican envoy in Ukraine prayed in silence at the recently discovered mass grave in Izium on Monday while forensic experts in white protective suits exhumed bodies, at least 146 so far.Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said during his visit to the grave site on Sept. 19 that "seeing so many [dead] in one area is a difficult thing … to explain.""The words of Sacred Scripture came to mind that evil must always be overcome with g...

Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, Sept. 7, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNARome Newsroom, Sep 7, 2022 / 04:24 am (CNA).God can speak to us in the unexpected moments of our lives if we learn to listen well to what he is telling us in our hearts, Pope Francis said on Wednesday."I will give you a piece of advice: beware of the unexpected," the pope said Sept. 7 at his weekly public audience."Is it life speaking to you, is it the Lord speaking to you, or is it the devil? Someone," he continued. "But there is something t...