Vatican
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Pope urges lawmakers to embrace faith over 'theology of duty'
Mar 28, 2014
Saying Mass for some 500 Italian parliamentarians Thursday, Pope Francis warned them of the corruption of the heart, imploring them not to slip from the theology of faith to a theology of duty.
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Obama, Pope Francis meet for first time
Mar 27, 2014
U.S. President Barack Obama and Pope Francis met for the first time Thursday at Vatican City.
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Vatican, Rome gear up for canonizations of John XXIII, John Paul II
Mar 27, 2014
Just over five weeks before the canonizations of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II, Rome hotels are reporting they are almost fully booked and the Vatican has confirmed the Mass will take place in St Peter’s Square, despite knowing that hundreds of thousands of people will have to watch the ceremony on large video screens.
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Pope to Mafia: Blood money will lead you to hell
Mar 27, 2014
Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian Mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else ‘end up in hell,’ reports Reuters in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Interfaith leaders launch effort against human trafficking
Mar 27, 2014
Catholic, Anglican, and Muslim leaders have launched an anti-human trafficking network that hopes to eradicate the crime by 2020 through the mobilization of religious communities.
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President Obama, Pope Francis to Meet for First Time
Mar 27, 2014
The world’s most powerful political leader and the world’s most powerful religious leader will meet for the first time Today,when President Barack Obama visits Pope Francis at the Vatican.
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Pope: without prayer, Mass, and confession, a priest becomes a ‘mediocrity’
Mar 27, 2014
Pope Francis devoted his March 26 general audience to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. While all in the Church are called to share in the three sacraments of Christian initiation, there are two sacraments-- holy orders and marriage-- that “correspond to two specific vocations.”
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Holy Orders fosters a passionate love of the Church, Pope notes
Mar 27, 2014
In his weekly general audience Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Sacraments, devoting today’s discourse to those who receive Holy Orders, referring to it as a vocation of “service.”
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Pope Francis gaining interest of American publishing houses
Mar 26, 2014
Pope Francis’ words are grabbing the attention of American publishing houses as well of the U.S. bishops’ conference communications office, according to the Vatican Publishing House.
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Pope lauds Mary’s meekness on feast of the Annunciation
Mar 26, 2014
During his Mass celebrating the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis emphasized that salvation is a gift from the Lord which we ought to receive with humility and obedience, just as Mary did.
Sunday Reflection
Our lives should reflect the Spirit
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Philip Tay, OCD