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The Vatican has released a new liturgy for the Mass reflecting concern for the environment, offering prayers, readings and hymns that highlight the church's responsibility to protect the Earth.
Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.
Pope Francis prays before the icon of ‘Salus Populi Romani’ (Protectress and Health of the Roman People) hung in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, on March 15, 2020. (photo: Vatican Media) Amy ...
Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of ...
For Walking With Pope Francis: The Official Documents in Everyday Language (Orbis, 2023), theology professor and priest James H. Kroeger made 10 of Francis's most influential Vatican writings ...
Francis also penned the first-ever encyclical letter on climate change in May 2015, in which he further invoked the past writings of St. Francis of Assisi, from whom Francis took his papal name ...
Pope Francis, whose papacy blended tradition with pushes for inclusion and reform, died on April, 21, 2025 – Easter Monday – at the age of 88. Here we spotlight five stories from The ...
Without basis, without charity, Pope Francis and his advisors stripped that venerable gem away from Catholics almost entirely ...
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(The Conversation) — Pope Francis, whose papacy blended tradition with pushes for inclusion and reform, died on April, 21, 2025 – Easter Monday – at the age of 88. Here we spotlight five ...
Pope Francis dies at 88: Pope ... "In his ministry and across his writings he has continuously called us to deeper faith and to a more generous participation in the boundless compassion of God ...
Pope Francis met three American presidents – Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden – even though he didn't always agree with their policies.