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God still weeps over today's calamities and wars waged for money

October 27, 2016

Pope Francis said God weeps over the calamities and over the wars waged nowadays to worship ‘the idol of money’ and for the many innocent victims killed by the bombs. He stressed that God weeps because humanity does not understand “the peace that He offers us.” His words came during the Mass celebrated on Thursday morning in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.

Ecumenical papal trip: Touching the Christian heart of secular Sweden

October 27, 2016

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis' recent insistence on "walking ecumenism," the notion that Christians will draw closer to each other as they work together to help the poor, should resonate well with Lutherans and Catholics in Sweden.

Sorrow and joy: Marking the Reformation with honesty about the past

October 26, 2016

VATICAN CITY – As Catholics and Lutherans prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, Pope Francis said they should feel "pain for the division that still exists among us, but also joy for the brotherhood we have already rediscovered."

Walls aren't answer to people fleeing war, climate change, Pope says

October 26, 2016

VATICAN CITY – Closing doors to immigrants and refugees is not the answer – in fact, it only helps encourage the crime of human trafficking, Pope Francis said.

Faith communities are integral to healing poverty

October 26, 2016

OTTAWA – Faith communities are an integral component in the struggle to overcome poverty, faith leaders told a conference on the subject.

God’s Kingdom grows through docility not with organization charts

October 25, 2016

Pope Francis said God’s Kingdom grows through its members showing docility and warned Christians against concentrating too much on structures and organization charts. He was speaking during his morning Mass on Tuesday celebrated in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.

'God calls us to be merciful and good, not rigid'

October 24, 2016

Pope Francis on Monday warned against excessive rigidity and said God gives us the freedom and the gentleness to be merciful.

Pope tells Jesuits to walk to peripheries, be open to future

October 24, 2016

ROME – Pope Francis, speaking both as pope and a Jesuit, asked members of the Society of Jesus to continue to journey to where Christ is most needed, and always ask God for consolation, compassion and help in discernment.

Catholic health workers face crisis of conscience

October 22, 2016

TORONTO – Dr. Luigi Castagna doesn’t think of practicing medicine as a protest movement. But a stalemate over conscience rights for doctors who object to physician-assisted dying may change that.

Christians needs to reject envy and conflicts and work for unity

October 21, 2016

Pope Francis said humility, gentleness and magnanimity are the three key attitudes to build unity within the Church and urged Christians to reject envy, jealousy and conflicts. He was speaking at his Mass celebrated on Friday in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.