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3 years

Pope Francis says that the protests following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd had the spirit of the Good Samaritan. “This movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to human dignity caused by an abuse of power.”

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#Vatican announce Pope Francis will go to Iraq 🇮🇶 next year, March 5-8 2021. Holy See says the visit “will take into consideration” the “worldwide health emergency” but the Pope plans to go to Baghdad, Erbil and Mosul #Iraq

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Pope Francis has visited Edith Bruck, a Holocaust survivor, at her home in Rome. The conversation, the Vatican says, retraced the “moments of light” in the “hell of the camps” along with the “fears and hopes” of the present day. 📸 Vatican Media

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A little boy, whose father has died, is overcome with emotion as he asks the #Pope a question. Francis beckons him over. Boy wants to know if his dad, a non believer, is in heaven. Pope: "God is a good father, how could he not save a good dad like yours?"

Papa a Corviale: bimbo piange per morte padre ateo e Francesco lo...

Papa Francesco, durante l'incontro con i bambini della parrocchia di San Paolo alla Croce a Corviale, nella periferia ovest di Roma, consola Emanuele in lacr...

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New cardinal, Bishop Robert McElroy, is firmly opposed to denying communion to pro-choice politicians saying the Eucharist must not be weaponised for political ends. The Pope’s appointment of McElroy sends a strong message to the US hierarchy…

Bishop McElroy: The Eucharist is being weaponized for political ends. This must not happen.

The proposal to exclude pro-choice Catholic politicians from the Eucharist will bring tremendously destructive consequences—not because of what it says about abortion, but because of what it says...

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Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, India: he is the first Dalit (the so-called “untouchable” caste) to be made a cardinal in the church’s history #consistory

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#PopeFrancis baptising 32 babies in the Sistine Chapel today: encourages mothers to breastfeed during the service and not to get upset if children make a noise. “When a child cries in church, it’s a beautiful homily”

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Report: Vatican foreign minister asked if US Secretary of State @SecPompeo has tried to exploit/manipulate the Pope during the election campaign “Well, yes, it’s one of the reasons the Pope is not meeting [with Pompeo]” #Trump #USA #HolySee

Scontro Vaticano-Usa: “Trump cerca di strumentalizzare il Papa. Pompeo non sarà ricevuto”

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Why is the Pope’s letter to @JamesMartinSJ so significant? It’s the first-ever written papal endorsement of a priest’s ministry to #LGBT Catholics

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Major Archbishop Shevchuk says because of the curfew in Kyiv, meaning people must stay at home, the Church will come to the people. “Our priests will descend to the underground, they will descend to the bomb shelter, and there they will celebrate the Divine Liturgy.” #Ukraine

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Pope Francis calls for better homilies which he says are often a “disaster” & should be no longer than 8-10 minutes. Full text () His remarks echo the synod working document which said “the quality of homilies is almost unanimously reported as a problem”

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Pope Francis, 87, from a wheelchair, washes the feet of 12 female prisoners at Rebibbia prison, Rome. Emotional scenes with Francis emphasising in his homily the importance of humility, service, forgiveness. #holythursday

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#PopeFrancis marries Paula and Carlos, an air steward and stewardess on board his plane. He performed ceremony after Church they wanted to be married in was destroyed in earthquake. Paperwork was done mid-air. (Pope’s signature bottom right) Photos: @antoniospadaro @inesanma

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Pope Francis sends telegram to King Charles III on the death of the #Queen . Francis pays tribute to the Queen’s “steadfast witness of faith” and assures the King of his prayers “as you now take up your high responsibilities.”

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Fr Mychal Judge, the first fatality of 9/11, who rushed to the World Trade Centre when he heard it had been hit. The former chaplain to the New York City Fire Department embodied a faith that serves without counting the cost. #September11 #20YEARS911

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The Vatican says that Pope Francis has personally visited the Russian Embassy to the Holy See to “express his concern” about the war in #Ukraine . This is a highly unusual move by the Pope, and a sign of his deep concern about the conflict.

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Pope Francis has given a powerful endorsement of Fr James Martin’s ministry to gay Catholics, praising the Jesuit priest for his “pastoral zeal” which Francis said “reflects the closeness of God”

Pope praises James Martin's ministry to gay Catholics

Pope Francis has given a powerful endorsement of Fr James Martin’s ministry to gay Catholics in a letter to the Jesuit priest.

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A family meeting with Pope Francis ❤️🙏

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La vita è bella Pope Francis meets actor & director Roberto Benigni 📸Vatican Media

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Pope Francis says that Patriarch Kirill “cannot become Putin’s altar boy.” When the pair spoke Kirill tried to justify the invasion but Francis replied: “Brother, we are not state clerics, we cannot use the language of politics, but that of Jesus.”

Papa Francesco: «Putin non si ferma, sono pronto a incontrarlo a Mosca» | Intervista esclusiva

Intervista a Papa Francesco: «Da Putin non abbiamo ancora ricevuto risposta. Zelensky? L’ho chiamato il primo giorno di conflitto, ma ora non è il momento di andare a Kiev Ho parlato 40 minuti con il...

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Pope Francis has removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from the leadership of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas. The move comes after an investigation which is understood to have found problems with his governance of the diocese including a breakdown in relations with priests & local…

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Francis, addressing a @EnMovPop meeting, says it “saddens me” that some in the Church “get annoyed” by Catholic social doctrine. “The Pope must not stop mentioning this teaching, even if it often annoys people, because what is at stake is not the Pope but the Gospel.”

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Francis repeats two suggestions he has made for the post-pandemic world: a universal basic income “so that everyone in the world may have access to the most basic necessities” and shortening the working day to prevent overwork & those “overwhelmed by lack of work.”

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Vatican official: some say it’s “socialist” to talk about universal basic income post-Covid19 “But our answer is ‘hold on a minute, companies are asking for government help and that’s not socialist, but if poor people, or informal workers need help, that’s socialist?” (1/2)

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“If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy” ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola (feast day, #31July ) #ignatius500

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Pope Francis celebrating his 80th birthday; Cardinal Burke celebrating his 70th. Photos: Vatican media/Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.

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NEW: Vatican announces that Holy Week/Easter Sunday celebrations will take place “without the physical presence of the faithful” and are expected to be live-streamed instead. Unprecedented in modern times.

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#PopeFrancis visits immigrant #Muslim family during trip to #Milan

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Vatican: this morning 25 homeless people, who are housed by the papal charities office, received the first dose of the #COVID19 vaccine. More groups are to follow in the coming days 📸 Vatican Media

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A spokesman for Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, says the archbishop is sheltering from the bombing in Kyiv with many others under his cathedral.

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Pope Francis says he was inspired to visit Iraq after reading this book by @NadiaMuradBasee , a Yazidi human rights advocate & Nobel Peace Prize winner “This is the underlying reason for my decision.” #Yazidi #Iraq

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Some personal news — I am delighted to be joining CNN as their Vatican Correspondent @cnni

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Pope Francis, in remarks to Jesuits in Portugal published by @civcatt_en , talks about the "very strong reactionary attitude" among some Catholics in the US. "The view of Church doctrine as monolithic is erroneous," he says.

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“From this place, where faith was born, from the land of our father Abraham, let us affirm that God is merciful and that the greatest blasphemy is to profane his name by hating our brothers and sisters” Pope Francis, in Ur, the birthplace of Abraham #PopeInIraq 🇮🇶

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Message from #PopeFrancis to Her Majesty the #Queen as the papal plane enters UK 🇬🇧 airspace on its way to Ireland 🇮🇪

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👶🏼 Delighted to announce that our baby boy, Thomas (Francis Arthur) Lamb, was born on Thursday 6 February 2020. A brother to Joseph and Martha. Isabel and I are overjoyed 👶🏼

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Pope Francis delivering his “Urbi et Orbi” message: next to him is Albanian Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 94, who was twice sentenced to death by his country’s former communist regime & suffered 28 years of hard labour. A living example of #Easter hope.

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Pope Francis on @JamesMartinSJ : “A man who has values, a communicator who also knows how to teach you the way to communicate with God.” Francis also recommends his book “To Learn to Pray”. [Significant given the attacks Fr Martin has faced due to his ministry to LGBT Catholics]

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#PopeFrancis unveils a new sculpture of migrants and refugees in St Peter’s Square “As Christians, we cannot be indifferent to the tragedy of old and new forms of poverty, to the bleak isolation, contempt and discrimination experienced by those who do not belong to ‘our’ group”

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We have a Pope from Latin America determined to implement the Second Vatican Council, in both word & spirit. This still confuses some in the Church.

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By saying “homosexuality is not a sin” and that the catechism is “not set in stone” Cardinal Marx is making a simple point: the Church’s official teaching should at least be updated to make it clear that to be gay is not sinful…(1/3)

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Michael Sean Winters: “It’s also a sin to lack charity with one another.” That is the Francis Revolution in nine words, a reminder that the beating heart of the Catholic faith is about charity.

After 10 years of being patient, Pope Francis is entitled to be less so

Columnist Michael Sean Winters sees evidence of an inflection point in Francis' pontificate, as conservative criticisms of the pope increasingly ring hollow and Francis seems to be increasing the...

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Following Mass in Erbil, Pope Francis met Abdullah Kurdi, the father of Alan, who died aged 3 as the family tried to reach Europe from Syria. The image of little Alan lying dead on a Turkish beach forced the world to face up to the refugee crisis #PopeFrancis 📸Vatican Media

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Pope Francis completes the rehabilitation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit theologian & scientist who in 1962 received a rebuke & warning from the Holy See’s doctrine office. Francis today described Teilhard as “often misunderstood” #Mongolia #Teilhard #Pope

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Pope Francis this afternoon met Edith Bruck, the writer and Holocaust survivor. The Vatican said the pair both stressed the importance of transmitting the memory of the past to younger generations so as to avoid repeating tragedies 📸 Vatican Media #HolocaustRemembranceDay

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Cardinal Michael Czerny concludes a lecture in Mainz, Germany on evangelisation and the Church’s social teaching by paraphrasing St John Chrysostom: “If you do not find God in the stranger, in the refugee, in the poor, you will not find him in the Eucharist either”.

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These principles, he says, include the “preferential option for the poor, the universal destination of goods, solidarity, subsidiarity, participation, and the common good” and they belong to the “full tradition of the Church” #PopularMovementwithFrancis

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Pope Francis has warned against the “heresy” of becoming a Church that is only for “the pure” and which refuses to translate the Christian message into contemporary language and thinking. My story in @The_Tablet :

Church for the 'pure' is heresy, Francis warns Curia

Pope Francis warned against the heresy of becoming a Church only for the “pure” in his pre-Christmas message to the Roman Curia.

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Cardinal Joseph Tobin says any move to deny communion to public officials will throw the bishops into the “toxic partisan strife” which has caused divisions in the US and will be “profoundly alienating for people” #USCCB21

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Pope Francis makes clear the post-Vatican II vision of the church while in #Slovakia “The church is not a fortress...looking out upon the world below…[it] is a community that seeks to draw people to Christ with the joy of the Gospel.”

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Pope Francis has asked two cardinals to make their way to #Ukraine to express “the Church’s solidarity with the suffering Ukrainian people”. More details 👇👇

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Pope Francis breaks another Vatican glass ceiling by appointing Sr Alessandra Smerilli as the acting no.2 at the Holy See's department for human development @VaticanIHD . Sr Alessandra is the first woman to hold such a position in the Roman Curia.

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By placing restrictions on the Old Rite, Pope Francis has effectively asked traditionalists devoted to that celebration of the liturgy a question: Do you stand with the Second Vatican Council or not?

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Pope Francis names Sr Rafaella Petrini as Secretary-General of the Vatican City State, the first woman to hold such a role. Another Vatican glass ceiling broken...

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Pope Francis today: "I have experienced how important good health care is, accessible to all, as it is in Italy and in other countries. "This precious benefit must not be lost. It needs to be kept!"

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#PopeFrancis today sends an “affectionate greeting” to everyone in the US and that he is praying for those who died during the 6 January riot in Washington DC “Violence is always self-destructive: nothing is gained with violence, so much is lost” #CapitolHill #CapitolRiots

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I caught up with @JamesMartinSJ in Rome, and asked him about his meeting with #PopeFrancis and what it means for his ministry to gay Catholics

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“I’ve been threatened with death many times, but I should say that as a Christian, I don’t believe in death. I believe in resurrection...A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish.” St. Oscar Romero #24March

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Pope Francis in Assisi: "it is time that the poor be given back their voice because for too long their requests have remained unheard. It is time that eyes be opened to see the state of inequality in which many families live." #GiornataMondialedeiPoveri

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German synod assembly votes in favour of blessings for same-sex couples (161 in favour, 34 against, 11 abstentions) @DerSynodaleWeg

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Antoine Kambanda, Archbishop of Kigali, becomes Rwanda's first cardinal. He lost his parents and five siblings during the 1994 Rwandan genocide #Rwanda

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The field hospital church #PopeFrancis #Gemelli #Angelus

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, @JustinWelby , in his sermon at the #queensfuneral : “those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.”

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Excited to begin my first official day as Vatican Correspondent for @CNN @cnni

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#PopeFrancis opening #Synod2023 : "Keep us from becoming a 'museum Church', beautiful but mute, with much past and little future."

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Pope Francis emphasises a critical element of a more synodal church: “There is room for everyone in the Church…including those who make mistakes, who fall or struggle…everyone, everyone, everyone!” #WorldYouthDay23 #WYD

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Vatican: Pope Francis today spoke with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. "The Church must not use the language of politics, but the language of Jesus," Francis said. “We must unite in the effort to help peace.” #Ukraine #Russia 📸 Vatican Media

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Full text of Pope Francis’ address yesterday to @EnMovPop which is likely to go down as an important contribution to the theology of social justice:

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Pope Francis this morning met Gloria Cecilia Narváez, a Colombian nun who was kidnapped in Mali in 2017 and was released yesterday. They met in St Peter’s Basilica before the Mass to open the synod. (Photos from @OscarElizaldeP )

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Pope Francis today: “Whenever in the Church there are temptations to rigidity…it is not the way. When we see proposals of rigidity, let us think immediately: this is an idol, it is not God.” #23January

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Sr Simona Brambilla has been appointed the no.2 role at the Vatican office for religious life, another appointment by Francis of a woman to a senior role in the Vatican (& to a position which many have called for a religious sister to fill) Sr Simona, who is from Monza, Italy,…

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Pope Francis in #Mongolia : "Another myth needing to be dispelled is that the Catholic Church, distinguished throughout the world for its great commitment to works of social promotion, does all this to proselytize, as if caring for others were a way of enticing people to 'join…

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Pope Francis greets US Cardinal Raymond Burke after the Palm Sunday Mass

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Br Jean-Pierre Schumacher, the last surviving member of the Tibhirine community, who refused to leave Algeria during the civil war of the 1990s out of solidarity with the local Muslim community, has died aged 97. Here he is meeting Pope Francis in Morocco in 2019.

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Electric atmosphere as Pope Francis arrives for meeting with an estimated 65,000 young people at the Stade des Martyrs. #PopeInDRC #Kinshasa

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Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Patriarch Bartholomew release a joint message on the environment ahead of #COP26 . "Climate change is not only a future challenge but an immediate and urgent matter of survival"

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Vatican: Pope Francis celebrates his 85th birthday by meeting 10 refugees in the Apostolic Palace. He had helped them come to Italy from Cyprus. (📸Vatican Media)

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🎙️A conversation with Fr Timothy Radcliffe, the "spiritual father" of the synod 🎙️ He talks about the synod process, his illness and navigating polarisation. On LGBT Catholics: "The question always put is: is the Church’s teaching going to change? That’s not the issue. The…

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“A church of the pure and perfect is a room with no place for anyone.” ~ Pope Francis, 6 June 2021

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Pope Francis: “In the name of God - stop this massacre!” #Mariupol #Ukraine

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Pope Francis says the Second Vatican Council sought to bring about a return to what is essential: “A Church that is rich in Jesus and poor in assets” and a “Church that is free and freeing.”

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The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord (Rowan) Williams, on the canonisations of #PaulVI and #OscarRomero . Lord Williams was in #StPeter 's Square for the ceremony on 14 October.

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Pope Francis: “it is better to have an imperfect but humble faith that always returns to Jesus, than a strong but presumptuous faith that makes us proud and arrogant.” #Angelus #24April

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Reaction to #PopeFrancis ’ same-sex unions remarks - including the question of when he made them and to whom - underline some important points about this papacy. Francis refuses to be scripted, and has not changed the direct pastoral approach he adopted in Argentina (1/5)

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Cardinal Joseph Tobin of @NwkArchdiocese says he hopes the synod will help open the doors of the church (this, he said, will show the "real beauty" of the church). He talks about welcoming those who felt excluded from the church to his cathedral due to their sexuality.

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Important intervention from Pope Francis today on the Second Vatican Council: “Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow the Council, or you interpret it in your own away - according to your desire - [and] you do not stand with the Church.”

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The Bavarian marching band from #PopeBenedictXVI ’s homeland

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Hearing a baby crying in the Cathedral during his meeting with married couples the #Pope responds: ‘it’s beautiful to hear that music...It is the most beautiful music and the most beautiful sermon, because it is the cry of hope.’ #PopeInIreland

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What is #synod2023 all about? One person in Rome put it this way to me: “It’s about listening to the Church that doesn’t go to Church anymore”

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Two opponents of Pope Francis are on their way out. Archbishop Georg Gänswein is due to return to his home diocese on 1 July while Cardinal Raymond Burke, who reaches the episcopal retirement age of 75 on 30 June, no longer has his Order of Malta position.

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“Whoever makes war, forgets humanity” - Pope Francis, 27.2.2022 #Ukraine

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Pope Francis today: the Holy See ready and willing to help mediate for peace in Ukraine. “War is madness. Stop” #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar 🇺🇦

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Pope Francis: “If the poor are marginalised, as if they were to blame for their condition, then the very concept of democracy is jeopardised and every social policy will prove bankrupt.”

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Vatican doctrinal ruling, approved by Pope Francis, says single mothers must not be refused communion. “Pastoral work should be done in the local Church to make people understand that being a single mother does not prevent that person from accessing the Eucharist.”…

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“They got angry, but let’s move on, move on,” the pope said. Translation: In the Catholic Church of the future, those who go backward are likely to be left behind. By @GibsonWrites

Opinion | American conservatives are not more Catholic than the pope

Why is Francis speaking out so sharply now, after 10 years as pope?

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Pope Francis, on the papal plane, asked by @ClaireGiangrave about the Catholic teaching on artificial contraception, talks about the development of doctrine. Warns against “backwardist” (“indietrist” thinking:

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“If we look at the history of the Church, we will see that every time the bishops have not dealt with a problem as pastors, they have taken sides on a political front...Be a pastor; don’t go condemning…” Pope Francis on refusing communion to pro-choice politicians, Sept 15, 2021

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It was great to meet @Maura_Ajak89 , a brilliant & brave South Sudanese reporter who works for a number of outlets including the Catholic Radio Network.

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The latest ruling from the Holy See on the old rite has a clear purpose: It is to ensure that the pre-Vatican II liturgy is celebrated as an exceptional concession & is not to be adopted by new priests or religious orders as an alternative (superior) liturgical way of life.

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Synod participants process in for the closing Mass. Notable that non-ordained delegates process in before the bishops, emphasising that the church that is firstly a people & secondly a hierarchy #Synod2023

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