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Apr 14, 2024 · Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ prayer of suffrage for the victims of the war, delivered March 7, 2021, at Hosh al-Bieaa (Church square) in Mosul, Iraq.
May 1, 2024 · CNA Staff, Mar 7, 2021 / 08:50 am (CNA).- Pope Francis on Sunday expressed joy at the vitality of the Church in Iraq despite years of fierce persecution. Celebrating Mass in the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil on March 7, the pope praised the country’s dwindling Christian community for its care for the poor.
2 days ago · Chartres, France, Jun 13, 2019 / 03:01 am ().-More than 14,000 Catholics walked 62 miles from Paris to Chartres Cathedral in three days in an annual Pentecost pilgrimage of prayer and penance.
3 days ago · There are three germane quotes, today, for our purposes, from the Bible. First: "And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized" (Acts 9:18). That was about Paul and his literal enlightenment. Think about that strange word, "scales." In Scripture, we start
May 2, 2024 · Rome Newsroom, May 2, 2024 / 12:41 pm. Pope Francis published a letter on Thursday addressed to all parish priests in the world with his advice for building a missionary Church in which all the ...
2 days ago · Two recent publications illustrate the range of research conducted at the Vatican Observatory, from studying the work of Galileo to developing mathematical methods for understanding the Big Bang. In April, Frs. Gabriele Gionti (S.J.) and Matteo Galaverni (Diocese of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla, Italy) of the Observatory published “On the canonical equivalence between Jordan and Einstein frames
Apr 17, 2024 · The pope’s meetings with Iraqi authorities come at a time when the country is also facing severe political and socioeconomic challenges, including a protest movement calling for an end to government corruption, high levels of unemployment, and the sectarian divisions within the political system established after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ...
