Pope Francis is bringing his Holy Year to Rome’s main prison. Francis traveled to Rebibbia prison Thursday on a frigid morning.
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Pope Francis gestures on the day of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Ciro de Luca/File Photo ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Thursday he planned to visit Turkey's Iznik next year for the annivers...
Pope Francis is calling on wealthy countries and institutions to substantially reduce if not outright cancel debt as a matter of justice on the occasion of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee Year.
Pope Francis has made it a tradition to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass with people who could not come to the Vatican or the Basilica of St John Lateran for the celebrations. His first year as pope in 2013, he chose a juvenile detention facility to celebrate Holy Thursday. The next year...
Holy Thursday: Pope Washes the Feet of 12 Inmates, 1 InfantVATICAN CITY * Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 inmates and ababy at Rome's main prison...Winfield, Nicole
The appointment of the bishop of Ajaccio François-Xavier Bustillo is not striking. Pope Francis donated his book Witnesses, Not Officials: The Priest Within the Change of Era at the end of the chrism Mass on Holy Thursday 2022. Instead, by appointing the archbishop of...
...Pope Francis walks past urns of chrism oil as he celebrates Holy Thursday chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 1, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Living and preaching the Gospel always involves embracing "the cross," whether it be in the...
In a copy of the letter seen by Reuters, Francis is asked to help establish the "shared use, administration and property" of Coricancha. "Do not allow, Holy Father, dear little brother of ours, the perpetuation of this injustice against our peoples," it says. Riveros said that...
Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday prayer ahead of Christmas celebrations, condemning the “cruelty” of bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine and Gaza.