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Jan 17, 2024 · The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a recent interview that Pope Francis previously knew of his Spanish-language book. Saturday, April 27, 2024 A service of EWTN News
Oct 6, 2013 · The pope had a few moments of silent prayer and, according to Viganò, describing what he saw, "he stands up, turns around, and at that moment he's a different person." "It's as if God had said to ...
Jan 12, 2011 · The Pope said that St. Catherine – a 15th century Italian mystic – didn't focus on the “torments” of purgatory but rather called it an “interior fire” that purifies and inflames our ...
Apr 14, 2022 · Speaking with Jesuits in Malta, Francis said that Benedict's vision of the future of the Church is one of his "richest intuitions." Pope Francis agrees with his immediate predecessor, Benedict XVI ...
Jan 17, 2024 · Pope Francis met Sunday with a father who lost his wife and two children in a shipwreck as Syrian war refugees. Abdullah Kurdi was one of the thousands of people in the crowd at the pope’s ...
Jan 12, 2011 · The pope spoke about purgatory in an audience talk dedicated to the life and mystical writings of St. Catherine of Genoa, a 15th-century married woman who ran Genoa's largest hospital.
Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy. Francis lived two years longer, in constant pain and almost totally blind (he had contracted an eye disease while proselytizing in the East in 1219). Medical treatment at Rieti was unsuccessful, and after a stay at Siena, he was brought back to Assisi, where he died at the Porziuncola.
