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Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli address on May 21, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, May 21, 2023 / 06:40 am (CNA).One week after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Francis urged that "we must not get used to war" as he prayed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan.In his Regina Caeli address on May 21, the pope entreated people to "continue to stand by the battered people of Ukraine" more than one year after Russia's invasion.The day prior, Pope Francis entrusted Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi with a peace mission on behalf of the Vatican to try to h...

Pope Francis at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 17, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 21, 2023 / 08:40 am (CNA).In a letter marking the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Pope Francis asserted that the mere possession of nuclear weapons creates "a climate of fear and suspicion" and offers "only an illusion of peace."The Vatican released a letter on May 20 that the pope wrote to Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama of Hiroshima assuring his prayers as "the G7 Summit meets in Hiroshima to discuss urgent issues currently facing the global community."&quo...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Portoviejo, Eduardo José Castillo Pino, asked the faithful to pray for the end of violence in Ecuador and expressed his solidarity with the victims and injured left by a shooting that occurred Thursday morning at a funeral home in Manta, a port city on the central coast."Once more, crime and terror again destroy the lives of so many people, and fill us all with fear and insecurity," the prelate said in a May 18 statement to ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner."For the victim...

Our Lady of All the Angels church, built by the Society of St. Pius X, in the Archdiocese of Puebla, Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).With the construction of a new church called "Our Lady of All the Angels," the Archdiocese of Puebla in Mexico warned the faithful about the Lefebvrist "schismatic movement" of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, stressing that the sacraments their priests administer "are illicit."In a statement released May 12, the archdiocese stated that the church, located near the San Pedro Cholul...

The Vatican has withdrawn a commemorative stamp for the 2023 World Youth Day. / Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City StateDenver Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).A Vatican-produced postage stamp to commemorate the upcoming World Youth Day 2023 in Portugal has been withdrawn after criticism over its use of a mid-20th-century monument that is controversial in some Portuguese circles.The stamp, created by the Vatican Philatelic Service and issued on May 16, shows Pope Francis leading a group of children up the Monument to Discoveries. The Lisbon monument was built in 1960 f...