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The Vice Chancellor (VC) of Kenyan-based Daystar University developed a deep desire to meet Pope Francis when he read about the Holy Father’s approach to the conservation of the earth in his 2015 Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’. That was just over a year ago.
The online pilgrimage, which members of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) launched is expected to feature people’s “contributions to the struggle for justice”, the Catholic Church leaders have said in a statement.
Pope Francis on Thursday appointed Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini to the second-ranking position in the government of the Vatican City State.
The pope continued his catechetical cycle on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians.
The condition affects an estimated 280 million people worldwide.
An estimated 112 million children work in agricultural settings.
The pope said he had hoped to attend the meeting, but it ‘was not possible.’
He made the remark in a new book preface.
He made the appeal in his Angelus address.
According to multiple reports, President Joe Biden on Friday said that Pope Francis told him to “keep receiving Communion.”
The Vatican offered no explanation for the decision.
Pope Francis gave Catholics some recommendations for how to restart their spiritual life after falling out of practice.
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s Oct. 29 meeting with Pope Francis, a White House spokeswoman acknowledged on Wednesday that “the pope has spoken differently” than Biden on abortion.
Pope Francis called on the international community to stop deporting migrants to unsafe countries.
Denunciation is not enough when it comes to issues of injustice, the pope said this weekend.
The pope also shared a story from the life of St. Therese of Lisieux.
He confirmed that he would visit Greece and Cyprus in December.
Synodality is a journey, a “reversed pyramid” and an opportunity to create more engagement among the people of God, young African Catholics and women and men Religious who shared their understanding of the synod which Pope Francis launched October 10 have said.
The letter urges them to ‘Please be a good priest.’
The boy approached the pope during his weekly catechesis.