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Pope Francis apologizes for not leaving his chair at Wednesday audience

Pope Francis’ common audience in St. Peter’s Sq., Might four, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Might four, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis remained seated through the traditional blessings of newlyweds and pilgrims at his Wednesday...

Pope Francis: Faith is not something only ‘for old people’

Pope Francis speaks on the common viewers in St. Peter's Square on Might four, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican Metropolis, Might four, 2022 / 07:35 am (CNA). Pope Francis stated on Wednesday that having religion isn't something solely...

Japan’s PM tells Vatican of concern about human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang

Pope Francis meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Vatican, Might 4, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Might four, 2022 / 10:57 am (CNA). Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and informe...

The story of Sister Lucindis, the nun who made St. Peter’s Square her home

Sister Marie Lucindis Inventory. / Shutterstock/courtesy photograph. Vatican Metropolis, Might 5, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA). It’s doubtless that most of the clergymen, cardinals, and bishops working inside the Vatican knew her face, although no o...

World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2022: Pope Francis says ‘Church must become increasingly synodal’

Pope Francis lays palms on a Bangladeshi deacon as he ordains him to the priesthood throughout a Dec. 1, 2017, Mass in Dhaka. / Vatican Media. Vatican Metropolis, Might 5, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis stated on Thursday that “the Churc...

Pope Francis uses wheelchair in public for first time since colon surgery

Pope Francis enters the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall in a wheelchair on Might 5, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Might 5, 2022 / 04:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis used a wheelchair during a public meeting on Thursday, the first time he has comp...

Pope Francis merges 4 foundations into new Vatican hospitality body

Pope Francis is pictured outdoors the Casa Santa Marta on July 1, 2021. / Vatican Media. Vatican Metropolis, Might 5, 2022 / 07:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis issued a decree on Thursday merging four foundations into a new Vatican establishment de...

Pope Francis encourages religious orders to ‘make their synodal journey’

Pope Francis meets individuals in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors Common on Might 5, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Might 5, 2022 / 09:56 am (CNA). After arriving in a wheelchair for a meeting with spiritual...

Cardinal Becciu questioned on investments as his former deputy seeks damages

A listening to in the Vatican finance trial is held on Nov. 17, 2021. / Vatican Media. Vatican Metropolis, Might 5, 2022 / 11:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Angelo Becciu was questioned about investments throughout a hearing in the Vatican’s ongoing f...

Pope Francis permitted spending $1m to free nun kidnapped in Mali, cardinal says

Pope Francis greets the lately freed Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti on the Vatican, Oct. 10, 2021. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Might 5, 2022 / 16:05 pm (CNA). On the Vatican’s finance trial on Thursday, Cardinal Angelo Becciu stated...

Pope Francis: ‘Barbarity of war’ should inspire new push for Christian unity

Pope Francis meets members in the Pontifical Council for Selling Christian Unity’s plenary assembly at the Vatican, Might 6, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Might 6, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis stated on Friday that the “barbarit...

Pope Francis encourages new Swiss Guard recruits ‘to grow as Christians’

Pope Francis with new Swiss Guard recruits in the Vatican’s Clementine Corridor on Might 6, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican Metropolis, Might 6, 2022 / 06:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Friday inspired 36 new recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Gua...

Cardinal Pell highlights 'somewhat incomplete' account given by Cardinal Becciu at Vatican finance trial

Cardinal George Pell, prefect emeritus of the Secretariat of the Financial system, speaks with EWTN News in Rome, Dec. 9, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Denver Newsroom, Might 6, 2022 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Cardinal George Pell stated Friday tha...

Pope Francis: ‘It’s not possible to worship God while making the liturgy a battleground’

Pope Francis meets with the Pontifical Liturgical Institute within the Apostolic Palace on Might 7, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican Metropolis, Might 7, 2022 / 08:10 am (CNA). Pope Francis stated Saturday that the liturgy should not be “a battl...

Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury say South Sudan trip will be a ‘pilgrimage of peace’

Pope Francis and the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on the Vatican on Oct. 5, 2021. / Vatican Media Vatican Metropolis, Might 7, 2022 / 09:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis has stated that he is wanting forward to visiting South Sudan this s...