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Pope Francis tells U.S. that no one can claim to defend the sanctity of every human life and turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion.
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Happy 94th Birthday to retired Pope Benedict XVI! š.(Vatican Media photo from November 2020)
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#PopeFrancis: On Israel-Hamas conflict. "Enough! Enough, brothers, enough! . Every human being, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, of whatever people or religion, every human being is sacred, is precious in the eyes of God and has the right to live in peace."
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Beautiful Vatican Media shot of #PopeFrancis and a young one with her olive branch at #PalmSunday Mass in St. Peter's Square this morning.
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Ottawa archbishop surprised by negative reaction to robotic spider onĀ cathedral
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As pope turns 81, kids entertain with song, dance and 13-foot pizza
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#PopeFrancis announces he will canonize Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Oscar Romero Oct. 14 in Rome.
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Pope Francis announced he will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis during the Jubilee for Adolescents: April 25-27 and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati during the Jubilee of Young People: July 28-Aug. 3.
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"Security breach" when small boy checks if the Swiss Guard is real, tugging on his glove. Mom to the rescue, explains they're from Argentina. Pope jokes: Ah, he lacks discipline -he's Argentine. Tells audience: the boy is mute, but expresses himself just fine. Be free like him!
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Pope Francis: There's a mission proper to old age. Don't hide your wrinkles, which reflect wisdom. The best wine has been aged. Sadly, today there's the myth of eternal youth --a desperate obsession with an incorruptible body. Why is old age not appreciated in so many ways?
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#PopeFrancis leads prayers that the #AmazonFires will be quickly extinguished; describes the Amazon forest as "lung that is vital to our planet."
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#PopeFrancis (to applause): A homily should have one idea, one effect and one proposal for doing something. "And please, don't go over 10 minutes."
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#PopeFrancis: "Brothers and sisters, never dialogue with the devil. When he comes with temptation -- this would be nice, that would be nice -- stop yourself. Lift your heart to the Lord, pray to Our Lady and send him away."
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Fifteen years ago today, St. John Paul II died. His contant reminder to "Be not afraid" echoes especially today. (CNS photo/Chris Niedenthal)
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#PopeFrancis: "May we never look at the screen of our cellphone more than the eyes of our brothers or sisters, or focus more on our software than on the Lord."
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Happy 91st birthday, retired Pope Benedict XVI.
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When @BpJamesJohnston met #PopeFrancis today, he presented him with a @PatrickMahomes jersey. The @Chiefs play the @Titans Sunday for the #AFCChampionship. (Pope Francis is a big #Futbol fan, not so much #football, but he is smiling.) (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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At last, in the land of Abraham. @Pontifex greets children and dignitaries for start of #PopeInIraq
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#PopeFrancis: Never lose a good sense of humor, ability to always smile and make others smile. The grace of humor brings you closer to grace of God.
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#PopeFrancis, 87, talking about his trip to Asia & the Pacific: "I thank the Lord who allowed me to do as an elderly Pope what I would have liked to do as a young Jesuit! I wanted to be a missionary."
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#PopeFrancis: "With Jesus there is always the possibility of starting over. It's never too late, you always can begin again. Be brave. He is close to us and this is the time for conversion."
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#PopeFrancis on Pentecost: "If the world is divided, if the church is polarized, if hearts are broken, let us not waste time in criticizing others and growing angry with one another; instead, let's invoke the Holy Spirit.".
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#StephenHawking was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences @CasinaPioIV . Three popes had met him.
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Happy first feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.
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40 years ago today, St. John Paul II went to Rome's Rebibbia prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca. (š·Arturo Mari, L'Osservatore Romano)
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BREAKING: Italy grants citizenship to #AlfieEvans. "In that way, the Italian government hopes that being an Italian citizenship would allow the immediate transfer of the baby to Italy".
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Joe Biden will be second Catholic president of the United States. (CNS photo/Mike Segar, Reuters)
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#PopeFrancis asks people to join him May 1 praying the rosary for peace, especially in Syria, and to pray the rosary each day in May with peace as the intention.
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With #Putin announcing a military operation in Ukraine, we're just going to remind people that #PopeFrancis has called for prayer. Here's a little reminder of how to pray the rosary. Share with anyone you think might need it. #RussiaUkraineCrisis
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#PopeFrancis fell in his residence this morning, hurting his right arm. He did not break it, but doctors immobilized it and gave him a sling as a precaution, @HolySeePress says. (šøVatican Media)
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Happy birthday to Pope Francis, who turns 86 today. #PopeFrancis #Happybirthday.(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Snowball battle between Pontifical North American College and Venerable English College in St. Peter's Square. (Ended very gentlemanly. Handshakes and smiles.) Paul Haring photo.
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BREAKING: @Pontifex announces opening Vatican Secret Archives regarding wartime pontificate of Pius XII, accused by some of not doing enough to save the Jews. Starting March 2, 2020, documents from Pius' election in 1939 to his death in 1958 will be available to researchers.
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#PopeFrancis to young people: Your worst enemy isn't life's problems no matter how serious they are. It's a bad attitude, mediocrity, fear. Be restless! Never settle with way things are. Live in full-color. Look to #BlessedPierGiorgio
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#PopeFrancis tells young people, "The only time it is legitimate to look down on someone is when you are there to help them get up again."
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PopeFrancis makes heartfelt appeal: Put down all weapons, declare a ceasefire to begin journey of peace, conduct real negotiations that require some sacrifice for good of all. What kind of victory is it to plant a flag on a pile of rubble?
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Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa warned officials of the Roman Curia against being overly nostalgic of the era after WW2 when "seminaries had abundant vocations." . "If those seminaries were filled with holy pastors. we wouldn't have to mourn so many scandals today."
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.@USCCB chairs on rescinding of Mexico City Policy : "This Executive Order is antithetical to reason, violates human dignity, and is incompatible with Catholic teaching. We and our brother bishops strongly oppose this action." (CNS photo/Reuters)
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#PalmSunday Mass with #PopeFrancis: One woven palm frond, one olive branch, one cross, one Christ
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The Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica is open. The Holy Year 2025 has begun.
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#PopeFrancis announces that everyone in St Peter's Square will be given a rosary made in the Holy Land & asks young people & all Catholics to pray the rosary for peace, especially in the Holy Land. #PalmSunday
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Water flows over their feet. Tears run down their faces. #PopeFrancis at Rome's Rebibbia women's prison.
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Today is the feast of St. John Paul II, who solemnly inaugurated his ministry on this day in 1978.
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#PopeFrancis: Devotion to a saint isn't magic or superstition, it's a sign of friendship & relationship with someone who has gone before us and continues to help us by interceding with God.
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Pope Francis: the Holy Spirit will correct you, make you weep for your sins, push you to change, fight against your lies. He will encourage you bc it takes hard work & sacrifice. Instead, evil pushes you to do what you think & find pleasing, & then blames you for feeling empty.
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#PopeFrancis: "Hope is not an empty word, or a vague desire of ours that things may turn out for the best; it is a certainty, because it is founded on Godās fidelity to His promises."
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#PopeFrancis: We are tempted "to believe in a God who is more rigorous than merciful, who defeats evil with power rather than with forgiveness. But it's not so. God saves with love, not force; he proposes, not imposes."
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#PopeFrancis: "Having doubts & fears" about immigration "is not a sin. The sin is to allow these fears to determine our responses, to limit our choices, to compromise respect & generosity, to feed hostility & rejection.
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Happy feast of St. Joseph especially to retired Pope Benedict XVI celebrating his name day (Joseph Ratzinger) and to #PopeFrancis celebrating the 6th anniversary of the inauguration of his papacy. (Vatican Media file photo from December)
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#PopeFrancis: The Spirit "does not revolutionize life around us, but changes our hearts. It does not free us from the weight of our problems, but liberates us within so that we can face them."
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#PopeFrancis: "Many countries celebrate Mothers Day today. We remember our mothers with affection, including those who are no longer with us down here but live on in our hearts."
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#PopeFrancis: Saints are in heaven & earth! They include people who are your true friends, those who understand, help & want what is best for you. #AllSaintsDay
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#PopeFrancis quotes a letter by J. R. R. Tolkien written to his son in his Christmas Eve homily:. "I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacramentā¦ There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth."
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"Jesus has risen from the dead and invites us to follow him. And that starts, as Pope Francis said a year ago, with beginning anew.ā #Easter .
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Thousands of people were lining the roads in the dark to welcome #PopeFrancis to Papua New Guinea
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Archbishop Georg GƤnswein prays at the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI on the first anniversary of his death. (photo Vatican Media)
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Speaking off the cuff, #Pope warns about the danger of going to psychics, tarot card readings. "Even today this happens in the big cities; practicing Christians continue to do these things. How can you believe in Jesus and go to a fortune-teller?
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Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the meeting between #PopeFrancis and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani lasted about 45 minutes; the pope thanked al-Sistani who, amid violence and difficulties, "raised his voice in defense of the weakest and most persecuted." #PopeInIraq
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Here's one for the memory books: #PopeFrancis recently started offering popemobile rides to children during his general audiences. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Just Married: By #PopeFrancis on the papal flight from #Santiago to #Iquique. The happy couple works for LatAm airlines. (Photo: Paul Haring)
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Happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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#PopeBenedictXVI's spiritual testament is full of gratitude, a request for forgiveness and an encouragement to all Catholics to hold fast to the faith.
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#PopeFrancis signs decree recognizing the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman.
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New York firefighters & rescue workers are seen Sept. 11, 2001, carrying Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with #FDNY who died while giving last rites to a firefighter on #September11 (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters) #WorldTradeCenter #NeverForget
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āReligious leaders inside Tigray and around the world . should continue speaking out as much as they are able".
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#PopeFrancis officially recognizes the martyrdom of Bishop Pierre Lucien Claverie of Oran, seven Trappist monks of Tibhihrine & 10 other religious men & women killed in Algeria in the 1990s.
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#PopeFrancis: Why were the women the first to see the Risen Lord? "For a very simple reason: because they were the first to go to the tomb." Like the male disciples, they were mourning, "but, unlike the others, they do not stay at home paralyzed by sadness and fear."
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Happy Birthday, Pope Francis! He turns 85 Dec. 17. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) #PopeFrancis #birthday #happybirthday
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#PopeFrancis: We need to move from "complaining to joy and peace. Because when we complain we aren't in joy, we are in a gray space, that gray area of sadness. This doesn't help us & doesn't help us grow."
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The imam first kissed the pope on the top of the head. (Vatican Media photo)
Pope Francis kisses the Grand Imamās hand at the end of an inter-religious meeting in the compound of the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta , Sept.5
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On today's Feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, #PopeFrancis says her communion w/ Christ gave her the courage to act & a hope that would sustain her during difficult moments. Even when all seemed lost, she influenced important people w/ power of her faith. May she inspire us.
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#PopeFrancis at today's gen.audience: The church isn't a fortress; it's an expandable tent that can make room for everyone. A church that doesn't have its doors always open or that isn't on the move is not a church.
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Chickens start their day running around, #PopeFrancis said. We should start with prayer. "If we leave the house in the morning with a word of Jesus in our minds, the day will acquire a tone marked by that word, directing our actions according to what the Lord wants."
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#Pope: If we do not oppose evil, we feed it tacitly. It is necessary to intervene where evil spreads; because evil spreads where there are no daring Christians who oppose with good.
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Pope begins New Year with apology, prayers forĀ peace
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Vatican releases this photo of Card. Krajewski who is in Ukraine. He is praying over a common grave after he and the nuncio were leaving Borodyanka, north of Kyiv. Says they found at least 80 people buried without a name. "There will be the Sunday of Resurrection," he said.
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#PopeFrancis: "Love isn't playing violins -- all romantic -- no. It's work. It's taking care of others."
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#PopeFrancis: "Christmas reminds us that God continues to love us all, even the worst of us. To me, to you, to each of us, he says today: 'I love you and I will always love you, for you are precious in my eyes.'"
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#PopeFrancis: The Mass is not a show. Put down your cell phones, and raise up your hearts. It makes me so sad to see so many ppl taking out their phones during Mass.
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āIs my dad in heaven,ā little boy asksĀ pope
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PopeFrancis: Falling in love is one of the purest feelings. A person in love becomes generous, enjoys giving gifts, writes letters & poems, stops thinking of himself to be completely focused on the other. And if you ask a person in love why he loves, he will not find an answer.
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Greta Thunberg is #TIMEPersonoftheYear2019 for her climate activism. Here #Greta is in April with #PopeFrancis and a sign that refers to #LaudatoSi. (CNS photo/Reuters)
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#PopeFrancis: "If in the eyes of the world the poor have little value, they are the ones who open to us the way to heaven; they are our 'passport to paradise.'" #WorldDayOfThePoor.
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#PopeFrancis: Praising God is like breathing in 'pure oxygen,' it purifies your soul, helps you see beyond the current moment of darkness & difficulty.
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