Pope meets with family members of Hamas hostages
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Eight people united in their anguish carried into the papal library posters bearing the…
Vatican says abortion, surrogacy, war, poverty are attacks on human dignity
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death…
Pope marks 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s stigmata
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The wounds of Christ’s passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries…
Pope tells priests: Be icons of Christ, wipe tears like Veronica
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Priests are called to be “a true icon of Jesus,” drawing closer to God the father by…
Pope prays for all those affected by deadly quake in Taiwan
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis expressed his closeness to and solidarity with all those affected by a deadly earthquake in…
Righteous people work for the good of all, pope says
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While giving each person his or her due is fundamental for justice, the virtue of justice is…
War is ‘folly,’ pope says as he leads prayers for Ukraine, Gaza
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis held up a well-thumbed, camouflage-covered pocket edition of the New Testament and Psalms…
On Easter, pope asks Christ to ‘roll away’ the stones of war worldwide
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Just as Jesus removed the stone that sealed his tomb on the morning of the…
Pope says carrying the cross, Jesus asks, ‘Do you love me?’
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY —As a statue of Jesus bearing his cross is carried through the streets of Sonsonate, El…
Tears flow as pope washes feet of women inmates at Rome prison
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ROME — As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their…