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Pope Francis has called Catholics to spend more time with the saving power of God’s word as society and social media amplify “the violence of words.”
On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis warned of three “widespread and dangerous temptations” that the devil uses to separate us from God and divide us from each other.
Pope Francis formally conferred the ministries of lector and catechist upon four men and six women from the Philippines, Mexico, Congo, Italy, and the U.K. on Sunday at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
According to the Vatican gendarmes, around 12,000 people were in St. Peter’s Square for the pope’s weekly message.