Barring any obstacles caused by the global pandemic, Pope Francis is set to begin international travel again in 2021 by visiting Iraq in March, which would make him the first pope to visit this nation. "Pope ...
In September of 2015, Pope Francis made his first — and, so far, only — apostolic trip to the United States. The visit consisted of many of the usual features of previous papal visitations: formal ...
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. in 2015, Russ Shaw writes, “maybe it’s time to ask this question: Did he come five years too soon?” Five years after the historic visit, few if ...
Pope Francis will celebrate Pentecost in Malta, the Mediterranean island-nation where St. Paul was shipwrecked and where thousands of migrants and refugees continue to seek welcome and shelter. The Vatican announced February 10 that the ...
A newly brokered peace deal between the government of South Sudan and opposition leaders increased the chance of a papal visit to the African nation. The agreement signed in Rome Jan. 13 was significant because ...
Pope Francis will travel to the southern Italian seaport city of Bari in late February to close a meeting of bishops from countries bordering the Mediterranean, the Vatican confirmed. Publishing a list of the pope's liturgies ...
Questions about Vatican finances, especially those involving a real estate deal in London, are serious, but they also are a sign that reforms begun by Pope Benedict XVI are working, Pope Francis said. "This is the ...
At the end of his trip to Thailand and Japan, Pope Francis said he found truth in the saying, "Lux ex oriente, ex occidente luxus," or, as he roughly translated it, "the light comes from ...
While not adopting the Japanese bishops' opposition to nuclear power plants as his own, Pope Francis insisted the 2011 meltdown at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima raises serious questions. "It is important at ...
Saying it is "perverse" to think the threat of nuclear weapons makes the world safer, Pope Francis urged a renewed commitment to disarmament and to the international treaties designed to limit or eliminate nuclear weapons. ...
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