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Seek contact with nature to change polluting lifestyles, pope says

Humanity must have more direct contact with nature to counter the modern lifestyles that are destroying the planet, Pope Francis said.

Apostolic nuncio delivers annual Cardinal Bernardin lecture

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, delivered the 2024 Cardinal Bernardin Lecture at Loyola University Chicago on April 11, titled “Pope Francis: Discernment and the Dialectic of Mercy.”

Pope prays people will experience, share Easter joy

Like the women disciples who discovered Jesus had risen from the dead and ran to tell the others, Christians should be filled with such joy at Easter that they cannot help sharing it with others, Pope Francis said.

Pope asks nations to repeal laws discriminating against women

Governments must eliminate laws discriminating against women and help guarantee women’s human rights, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis renews appeal for cease-fire in Gaza

Pope Francis held up a well-thumbed, camouflage-covered pocket edition of the New Testament and Psalms and a small fabric pouch containing a rosary.

On Easter, pope asks Christ to 'roll away' the stones of war worldwide

Just as Jesus removed the stone that sealed his tomb on the morning of the Resurrection, on Easter Christ alone "has the power to roll away the stones that block the path to life" and which trap humanity in war and injustice, Pope Francis said.

Tears flow as pope washes feet of women inmates at Rome prison

As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their feet, 12 women inmates at Rome’s Rebibbia prison wept.

Pope Francis: ‘I too am a child of migrants’

The Catholic Church can draw closer to Jesus by accompanying migrants in their pursuit of a better life, Pope Francis said.

On Good Friday, Catholics urged to support Middle East Christians

Pope Francis plans to launch a humanitarian project in Gaza or the West Bank with the possible help of the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land, said the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.

Book helps people explore pope’s teaching on belonging

Pope Francis’s concern for migrants and refugees, his focus on ecology, his calls to “go out” to share the good news of salvation, even his support for the controversial possibility of informally blessing LGBTQ+ couples flow from his conviction that people need to know they belong to God, to one another and to creation.
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