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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.
St. Mary Major is one of four papal major basilicas in Rome.
The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ Christmas schedule for this year.
Pope Francis created the instituted lay ministry of catechist in May.
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.
Sacramental confession has healing abilities that priests should especially emphasize to help bring God’s love and consolation to a world damaged by two years of the coronavirus pandemic. That is the advice for confessors from Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who stressed the urgency of their work for humanity.