After a half-hour private meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis gave the prime minister of Ukraine a bronze plaque featuring a bird and a flower alongside the inscription, “Peace is a fragile flower.”
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Suffering is a Reality to Explore, Not Ignore, Pope Says
Suffering and death are human realities that raise questions people need to ask themselves, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis Confirms Trip to Mongolia in September
Pope Francis confirmed he will travel to Mongolia in September, becoming the first pope to visit the Asian nation, which is home to a cardinal and some 1,300 Catholics.
Vatican Announces Theme For World Day For Grandparents and The Elderly
Pope Francis has chosen “His mercy is from age to age,” a passage from the Gospel of Luke, as the theme for the 2023 celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
Pope Wants Truth Out On Missing Vatican Girl, Says Lead Prosecutor
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor said Pope Francis has given him free rein to investigate the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican resident.
Tidbits On the Tiber: Other Sights and Sounds from Palm Sunday
While the dominant Vatican headline yesterday was Pope Francis’ triumphant return to form in the Palm Sunday liturgy after three days in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for bronchitis, other tidbits, mostly in Sunday’s Italian press, have sort of flown below the radar.
One Day After Leaving Hospital, Pope Leads Palm Sunday Mass
Despite being discharged from the hospital just a day earlier, Pope Francis presided over an outdoor Palm Sunday Mass in a brisk St. Peter’s Square, telling believers to embrace those who feel abandoned as Jesus did on the cross.
As Pope Leaves Hospital, He Comforts Couple, Jokes With Reporters
“I’m still alive,” Pope Francis joked to reporters who asked how he was doing as he left Rome’s Gemelli hospital April 1.
Pope Visits Pediatric Oncology Ward, Baptizes Infant
Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
Bishops, Indigenous Catholics Welcome Vatican Condemnation of ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ But Say ‘More Work to Be Done’
Indigenous Catholics, along with U.S. and Canadian bishops, are welcoming the Vatican’s repudiation of a legal and political doctrine by which European colonial powers and North American governments historically seized lands from Indigenous peoples — while stressing there is more work to be done in healing Catholic-Indigenous relations.