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Pope celebrates indigenous in Chiapas as Catholics dwindle

Feb 15, 2016

Pope Francis is celebrating Mexico’s Indians on Monday with a visit to heavily indigenous Chiapas state, where he will preside over a Mass in three native languages thanks to a new Vatican decree approving their use in liturgy.
The dark side of Mexico the pope didn't see

Feb 15, 2016

It's not hard to tell when you are leaving the relative safety of Mexico City and entering this violence-torn, crime-ridden suburb in the neighboring state of Mexico.
The Latest: Pope's helicopter overflew Teotihuacan pyramids

Feb 15, 2016

The latest on Pope Francis' visit to Mexico, Pope's helicopter overflew Teotihuacan pyramids.
Pope Francis, visiting a bastion of poverty, envisions Mexico as a land of opportunity

Feb 15, 2016

Pope Francis on Sunday went to one of Mexico’s poorest and most dangerous cities and urged hundreds of thousands of faithful to make Mexico a land of opportunity, “where there will be no need to emigrate in order to dream.”
In Mexican slum, Pope Francis laments economic gap

Feb 15, 2016

Pope Francis stepped into the heartland of Mexican inequality on Sunday, presiding over an enormous outdoor Mass in the impoverished outskirts of the capital and urging the joyous crowd not to fall prey to the wealth, vanity and pride that can create “a society of the few, and for the few.”
In poor, violent enclave of ´Saint Death´, Pope slams Mexico´s rich

Feb 15, 2016

Celebrating Mass for more than 300,000 people in one of Mexico´s poorest and most dangerous cities, Pope Francis on Sunday took a swipe at the country's rich and corrupt elite .
Papal visit to Mexico: Holy Mass at the study center of Ecatepec

Feb 15, 2016

Last Wednesday we began the liturgical season of Lent, during which the Church invites us to prepare ourselves to celebrate the great feast of Easter
Don't let the devil steal God's dream for you, Pope Francis says in Ecatepec

Feb 15, 2016

Lent is a time of conversion, and a time to guard against the devil, who tries to rob us of God’s dream that we become his sons and daughters.
At a Mexico children's hospital, Pope Francis prays with young patients

Feb 15, 2016

Pope Francis on Sunday visited a pediatric hospital in Mexico City. He met the children being treated there, gave them rosaries and prayed with them.
Pope Francis delighted with doll from Philippines

Feb 15, 2016

A Filipino priest surprised Pope Francis in Rome by handing the pontiff with a miniature lookalike doll that was made in the Philippines.