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Pope Francis at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 31, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jun 6, 2023 / 05:36 am (CNA).Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital's center for the elderly for a visit on Tuesday, according to Italian media reports.Italian news agency ANSA reported that Pope Francis spent about 40 minutes at Gemelli Hospital before returning to his Vatican residence shortly before noon on June 6.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a brief statement June 6 confirming media reports.Bruni said: "This morning Pope Francis went to Gemelli Hospital to undergo...

Pope Francis' envoy to Ukraine Cardinal Matteo Zuppi on June 6, 2023, finished a "brief but intense" two-day visit to Kyiv, which included a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. / Credit: Vatican News/YouTubeCNA Newsroom, Jun 6, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).Pope Francis' envoy to Ukraine Cardinal Matteo Zuppi on Tuesday finished a "brief but intense" two-day visit to Kyiv, which included a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."The results of these talks, such as those with religious representatives, as well as the direct experience of the atrocious suffering of t...

St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. / Credit: Alexander_Peterson/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Jun 5, 2023 / 12:20 pm (CNA).Nobel laureates, Grammy-winner Andrea Bocelli, and several former heads of state will join Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square on Saturday night for the World Meeting on Human Fraternity.The June 10 event, called "#Not Alone," will culminate with Pope Francis signing a document calling for a commitment to human fraternity drafted by a dozen Nobel Peace Prize winners together with representatives of former Nobel Prize-winning organizations.Young people represent...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilica's high altar. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:04 am (CNA).Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilica's archpriest on Saturday held a penitential rite as required by canon law in cases where sacred places are desecrated.Vatican News reported that the unidentified man was a Polish national who approached the high alta...

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...