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The World Day of Peace is celebrated annually on Jan. 1.
Pope Francis spoke to four people who have faced difficult circumstances in life, including a woman who was a victim of domestic violence and a man who spent 25 years in prison.
A good way to get out of a negative mood is to help others, following the example of Mary, who went to help her pregnant cousin Elizabeth, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis on Sunday joined a belated celebration of his 85th birthday, thrown by the children and families helped by the Vatican’s charitable pediatric clinic.
The group of about ten refugees are being supported directly by Pope Francis.
The pope told new ambassadors that the ongoing pandemic is a reminder that “we are a global community where one person’s problems are the problems of all.”
‘We have to get used to humiliation,’ the pope told Jesuits in Greece.
The new body will foster spirituality, art, formation, and dialogue in the environs of St. Peter’s Basilica
The pope appealed for prayers for Haiti at his general audience.
St. Mary Major is one of four papal major basilicas in Rome.
The Catholic Priest who spearheaded the establishment and official opening of the South Sudan Apostolic Nunciature as its pioneer Chargé d’Affaires has been appointed Bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Bungoma in Kenya.
The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ Christmas schedule for this year.
The miracle attributed to Rivier, who can now be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church, involved the healing of a newborn baby in the Philippines in 2015.
The pope looked ahead to the Jubilee of Guadalupe in 2031.
The pope said that society ‘systematically excludes those without a voice.’
He was speaking to members of the Vatican department overseeing consecrated life.
The Vatican’s 2021 nativity scene was unveiled in St. Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis has reached out to the people of God affected by floods in South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Malakal with an additional donation of US$30,000.00.
Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Bishop Yves-Marie Monot of the Catholic Diocese of Ouesso in the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) and appointed his successor.
The pope leads the Angelus prayer on Marian solemnities, as well as Sundays.