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Pope Francis: Lent is a time to ‘encounter wild beasts and angels’

February 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis addresses pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during his Sunday Angelus on Feb. 18, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Feb 18, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA).
On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis focused his Angelus address on the … […]

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Pope Francis launches study groups to analyze Synod on Synodality’s key issues

February 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 6

Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality’s closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Feb 17, 2024 / 10:01 am (CNA).
The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Francis has launched synodal study group… […]

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Mexican presidential candidates meet with Pope Francis

February 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Mexican presidential candidates Xóchitl Gálvez y Claudia Sheinbaum met separately with Pope Francis. / Crédit: Xóchitl Gálvez, Claudia Sheinbaum

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 16, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, w… […]

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German Catholics ask bishops to reconsider Synodal Way plans

February 15, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The cross of the German “Synodal Way.” / Credit: Maximilian von Lachner/Synodaler Weg

CNA Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Ahead of a high-stakes gathering of the German bishops next Monday, a lay group warned the prelates of moving “fu… […]

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World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly highlights ‘loneliness,’ ‘throwaway culture’

February 15, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis greets an elderly couple at his general audience on Jan. 11, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 12:22 pm (CNA).
The theme for the fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will be celebrated … […]

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Analysis: Milei, Pope Francis embody contrasting economic viewpoints

February 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis meets with Argentina President Javier Milei in a private audience on Feb. 12, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
All eyes were on Pope Francis’ first meeting with Argentina’s… […]

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Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday: ‘Let us return to God with all our heart’

February 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis presides over Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Feb. 14, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Feb 14, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis said that Lent is a time to look inward … […]

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Pope Francis: Sloth is a ‘very dangerous temptation’ akin to apathy

February 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis delivers an address during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 14, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2024 / 09:50 am (CNA).
During his Feb. 14 Wednesday general aud… […]

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Pope Francis appoints Father James Ruggieri as bishop of Portland, Maine

February 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Portland Bishop-elect James Ruggieri. / Credit: Diocese of Providence

Rome Newsroom, Feb 13, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Father James Ruggieri as the new bishop of Portland, Maine.The Vatican announced Feb. 13 that … […]

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Pope names biochemist who contributed to COVID vaccine to Pontifical Academy for Life

February 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Nobel prize for medicine laureate Katalin Kariko speaks during the annual Nobel Symposium hosted by the Swedish Embassy at the House of Sweden in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Ne… […]

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