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When one is faced with an important difficult decision, Pope Francis’ advice is to imagine standing before Christ at the “threshold of eternity” because that is what ultimately matters.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of 2,000 people living in poverty and the volunteers who assist them.
“We need journalists who are willing to ‘wear out the soles of their shoes,’ to get out of the newsroom, to walk around the city, to meet people, to assess the situations in which we live in our time,” Pope Francis said.
The pope was marking the UN agency’s 75th anniversary.
The pope met with a group of more than 500 poor people from across Europe.
The pope urged Catholics to keep a copy of the prayer with them.
The escalating violence in Ethiopia is cause for concern for Pope Francis who has also expressed his spiritual solidarity with the victims of the explosion in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.
Pope Francis has transferred the Bishop who has been serving as Local Ordinary of Senegal’s Ziguinchor Diocese to the Episcopal See of Tambacounda.
The bishops are currently meeting in Lourdes.
The pope celebrated Mass at a Catholic university hospital in Rome.
The pope inaugurated a new art gallery at the Vatican Library.
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.