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The canonization of John Henry Newman in St. Peter’s Square, Oct. 13, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, May 10, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis will preside over the first canonizations in more than two years this weekend. Ten people...
Pope Francis visits the San Raffaele Borona assisted living home in Rieti, Italy, Oct. 4, 2016. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, May 10, 2022 / 03:35 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited grandparents and the elderly on Tuesday to join a "spiritual and non-violent revolution."In his message for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, issued on May 10, the pope urged seniors not to despair at their frailty but to embrace "a new mission" of caring for others in a world torn apart by conflict. "Old age is no time to give up and lower the sails, but a season of endurin...
Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 4, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Vatican City, May 9, 2022 / 10:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis has underlined that God "does not disown any of his children" in a brief message marking the launch of a new website for LGBT Catholics.The pope made the comment in a handwritten letter dated May 8 to Father James Martin, S.J., the editor at large of America Media, the company supporting the new website, outreach.faith, launched on May 1.In the letter, the Jesuit pope replied to questions posed by Martin, the author of "Building...
Pope Francis’ general audience in St. Peter’s Square, May 4, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, May 6, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis said on Friday that the “barbarity of war” should inspire a new push for Christian unity.The pope m...
Sister Marie Lucindis Stock. / Shutterstock/courtesy photo.Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA).It's likely that many of the priests, cardinals, and bishops working inside the Vatican knew her face, although no one knew the real story of the Pallottine Missionary sister who had made St. Peter's Square her home.They would have walked by the unknown woman often, passing by her perch on the base of a Vatican column, her rosy, wind-chapped cheeks peeking out from her puffy blue coat and pilling hat."I can't say that she was a saint. Only the Lord knows this," Father Hans-Peter Fisc...