St. John Paul II’s secretary denies pope’s role in missing ‘Vatican girl’
OSV News
April 17, 2023
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — St. John Paul II’s longtime aide denied the “vile insinuations” that the former pope was maliciously involved in the case of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl whose 1983 disappearance is the focus of an ongoing Vatican ...
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Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants
OSV News
April 3, 2023
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said. In his ...
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Pope Francis So Far
Mark P. Shea
February 20, 2023
In the past 10 years, Pope Francis has been both celebrated and vilified. But he remains on task for reforming the Catholic Church.
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Vatican funding for charitable works totals $10.7 million in 2022; $2.2 million alone goes to needs in Ukraine
OSV News
January 24, 2023
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — It was a sunny day in Rome Jan. 13 when a truck was fully loaded with supplies. Thermal clothing, power generators and food were put inside with the help of a papal official: Cardinal Konrad ...
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Cardinal Pell dies at 81; he kept the faith even amid tribulation, pope says
OSV News
January 12, 2023
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of trial” when he was jailed for ...
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Vatican to bring pope’s encyclicals to life in architecture exhibit