[ad_1] Speaking at his weekly general audience on November 23, 2022, Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine and remembered the millions of Ukrainian victims of the 1932-33 Holodomor, a Soviet-engineered famine. (Photo: Catholic News Service) By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Nine months after Russia launched a war against Ukraine, Pope Francis in … Read more
[ad_1] Pope Francis and his second cousin Carla Rabezzana have lunch at their home in Portacomaro, near Asti, Nov. 19, 2022. The pope traveled to the town in northern Italy to help celebrate Rabezzana’s 90th birthday and meet with other relatives. Celebrating Mass the next day in Asti Cathedral. (Photo: Catholic News Service) ASTI, Italy … Read more
[ad_1] VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis has continued to invite Russian and Ukrainian leaders to talk about ending the war, but the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told him that Russia only wants to destroy Ukraine. Ukrainian Archbishop of Kyiv-Khalich Sviatoslav Shevchuk met with Pope Francis on November 7 in the Vatican. The … Read more
[ad_1] Pope Francis speaks to reporters on a plane returning from Bahrain to Rome on November 6, 2022. (Photo: Catholic News Service) Eliza Allen, Tablet Special ROME – Since his election in March 2013, Pope Francis has made dialogue with Islam a cornerstone of his papacy, visiting several Muslim-majority sites and meeting with top Islamic … Read more
[ad_1] AWALI, Bahrain (CNS) – True love for God’s Creator means acting for his powerful children: the poor, the unborn, the elderly, the disabled and those abandoned by migrants, Pope Francis told representatives of various religious faiths. and international leaders. If the believers don’t listen to their voices and don’t support the voiceless side, who … Read more
[ad_1] Pope Francis leads the reading of the Angelus from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on November 1, 2022, the Feast of All Saints. (Photo: Catholic News Service) By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Saints are not “starched,” picture perfect conformists, Pope Francis said; they are “countercultural and revolutionary.” The … Read more