Vatican
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How difficult it is to learn how to rest
Apr 09, 2015
A key to fruitful priestly ministry lies in how we rest and in how we look at the way the Lord deals with our weariness. How difficult it is to learn how to rest! This says much about our trust and our ability to realize that that we too are sheep. A few questions can help us in this regard.
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Priests must learn to be “very tired” from being with their flock
Apr 09, 2015
Priests must learn to be "very tired", for having struggled in announcing the Good News, for sharing in the joys and sorrows of their flock, for defending themselves and the people God from the evil and for not bowing to "spiritual worldliness".
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Good Friday shrouded in grief over Christian persecution
Apr 09, 2015
Both Pope Francis' Good Friday service at the Vatican and the Stations of the Cross held at the Colosseum later in the day zeroed-in on the plight of persecuted Christians around the world.
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Pope Francis to inmates: ‘I too need to be washed by the Lord’
Apr 09, 2015
Pope Francis on Holy Thursday told inmates of a Rome prison that God’s love is personal and endless, emphasizing that he too needs forgiveness and purification.
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Pope says a ‘good Easter’ requires making Jesus’ passion one’s own
Apr 09, 2015
For a "good Easter," Christians must do more than simply recall the passion of Jesus during Holy Week; they must "enter into the mystery" of the Easter Triduum and make Jesus' feelings and attitudes their own, Pope Francis said.
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Papal bull issued on eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, proclaiming Holy Year
Apr 09, 2015
Pope Francis will issue a “Bull of Indiction” on April 11 as a formal proclamation of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Vatican has announced.
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Pope: No child is ever an error
Apr 09, 2015
Pope Francis concluded his reflections on children within the catechesis series on the family he has been giving at the Wednesday general audiences.
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General Audience: On the passion suffered by children
Apr 09, 2015
Here is a translation of the text of Pope Francis' address at the general audience held this morning in St. Peter's Square.
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Pope Francis brings down hammer, says 'Don’t mess with children'
Apr 09, 2015
Pope Francis said Wednesday that children are never a mistake, and called adults out for building faulty systems that leave children exploited and abandoned, rather than treated as the blessings they are.
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Pope to international community: Do not ignore persecuted christians
Apr 08, 2015
"I hope that the international community does not remain mute and inert in front of such an unacceptable crime, which constitutes an alarming breach in the most basic of human rights."
Sunday Reflection
Embracing the wisdom of the human heart
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