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“Families have always been in my thoughts and prayers, but especially so during the pandemic,” Pope Francis said.
He spoke from the central balcony overlooking a rainy St. Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis’ Christmas homily for Midnight Mass at the Vatican this year
In his Christmas homily, Pope Francis asked Christians to contemplate that God did not choose to come into the world in grandeur, but as a humble child born into poverty.
The dicastery will be led for now by Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny.
He said that Vatican officials should set an example for Catholics worldwide.
It issued a statement amid global concern about the Omicron variant.
The pope made the appeal at his general audience.
The Ghanaian cardinal confirmed that his five-year term is expiring.
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.
Various Vatican sources told CNA that a recent report by a traditionalist blog claiming that Cardinal Peter Turkson was set to resign at prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is "credible."
The explanatory document, which bans confirmations and ordinations according to pre-Vatican II Roman Missals, was published Dec. 18 with Pope Francis’ approval.
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.