By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM BANGLADESH — Well aware he was disappointing some people by not using the word “Rohingya” publicly in Myanmar, Pope Francis said his chief concern had been to get a point across, and he did. “If I would have used the word, the door would […]
Pope meets generals after brief welcome by children in Myanmar
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service YANGON, Myanmar — Greeted by two dozen children wearing traditional attire and by the nation’s bishops, Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar Nov. 27 for a four-day visit. The arrival ceremony at the Yangon airport was brief and led by an envoy of the president, because the formal welcome was […]
‘Invest in love,’ pope says on first World Day of the Poor
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — People have a basic choice in the way they live: either striving to build up treasures on earth or giving to others in order to gain heaven, Pope Francis said. “What we invest in love remains, the rest vanishes,” the pope said in his homily Nov. […]
Pope Francis continues papal pleas for disarmament
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — More than two years before the first atomic bomb was dropped, Pope Pius XII warned of the “catastrophic” consequences that could come from using the discovery of nuclear fission to create weapons. Addressing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in February 1943, Pope Pius noted that scientists […]
Put your smartphones down, pope says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Mass is not a show, but a beautiful, transformative encounter with the true loving presence of Christ, Pope Francis said. That is why people need to focus their hearts on God, not focus their smartphones for pictures during Mass, he said. When the priest celebrating […]
Being a Christian entails striving for holiness, daily battle against devil
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Being a Christian means battling the devil and striving for holiness each day, Pope Francis said. “Jesus calls us to change our lives, change paths, calls us to conversion,” he said in his homily at Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae Oct. 26. There is no […]
In the end, everyone faces God with ‘empty hands,’ pope says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — God waits for everyone, even the worst sinner who repents only with his dying breath, Pope Francis said. “Before God, we present ourselves with empty hands,” he said, meaning that all the good works people have or haven’t done throughout their lives aren’t measured to determine […]
Christian life is a love story with God, says pope, proclaiming 35 new saints
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Like the Catholic Church’s newest saints, Christians are called to live their faith as a love story with God who wants a relationship that is “more than that of devoted subjects with their king,” Pope Francis said. Without a loving relationship with God, Christian life […]
Death penalty is ‘contrary to the Gospel,’ pope says
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, “is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel,” Pope Francis said. Marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11, Pope Francis said the catechism’s discussion of the death penalty, […]
Eliminating differences between sexes ‘not right,’ Pope Francis says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While societies must find a way to overcome the subjugation of women, pretending there are no differences between men and women or even using technology to change a person’s sex is not the answer, Pope Francis said. Using science “to radically eliminate any difference between […]
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