Vatican
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Culture of care and hospitality central to Pope's Malta visit
Mar 30, 2022
Pope Francis sets off on his 36th Apostolic Visit abroad to the Mediterranean island nation of Malta this weekend, 2-3 April 2022. Amongst the highlights are a visit the Grotto of St. Paul whose ship washed up on Maltese shores in 60 A.D., and a meeting with refugees.
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Vatican corrects ‘extraordinary form’ error in new constitution
Mar 29, 2022
The Vatican has corrected a paragraph in its new constitution which it said erroneously referred to the Traditional Latin Mass as the “extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.”
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Pope thanks Polish Bishops for massive welcome of Ukrainian refugees
Mar 29, 2022
Pope Francis meets for 45 minutes with President of the Polish Bishops Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw G?decki, where they discussed the functioning of the Church in Poland during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Statio Orbis, the mosaic of a "universal" prayer
Mar 29, 2022
The intense images of the Pope's prayer for the pandemic, on the evening of March 27, 2020, were filmed and creatively reworked in various videos produced by ecclesial and media organizations.
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Pope at Angelus: May we receive God's mercy with open hearts
Mar 28, 2022
Recalling the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Pope Francis says when a person's heart is synchronized with God and sees the repentance of a person for their mistakes, they rejoice. May we also rejoice by receiving God’s mercy so it becomes the light by which we see our neighbours.
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Pope: Abolish war now, before war erases humanity from history
Mar 28, 2022
As the war in Ukraine continues into a second month, Pope Francis once again renews his call “to abolish war, to erase it from human history before it erases man from history.”
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Remembering the Extraordinary Moment of Prayer to end the pandemic
Mar 28, 2022
Sunday 27 March 2022 marks the second anniversary of the "Statio Orbis," the Extraordinary Moment of Prayer in Time of Pandemic, when Pope Francis pleaded for an end to the pandemic and for strength in faith.
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Cardinal Krajewski goes to Ukraine to deliver ambulance donated by Pope Francis
Mar 28, 2022
For the second time in recent weeks, the Papal Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski is travelling to Lviv, Ukraine, this time to bring an ambulance donated and blessed by Pope Francis to assist the local people there.
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‘Enough!’ End war before it ends us, Pope Francis says as Ukraine invasion continues
Mar 28, 2022
Pope Francis has again lamented the war in Ukraine and appealed for peace more than a month after Russia’s invasion.
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Pope: Ukraine war “shameful for all of us, for all of humanity”
Mar 28, 2022
Pope Francis on Saturday met representatives of the Italian Radio Transceivers’ Federation Citizens’ Band who cooperate with the government’s Civil Protection Department during emergencies and disasters. The group is also serving refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Sunday Reflection
Embracing the wisdom of the human heart
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr George Vaithynathan