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Pope Francis to canonize French missionary Bl. Charles de Foucauld

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood causes of 14 men and women, including Bl. Charles de Foucauld, a French missionary killed in Algeria in 1916. De Foucauld, also known as Brother Charles of Jesus, was a soldier, explorer, Catholic revert, priest, hermit, and religious brother who served among the Tuareg people in the Sahara desert in Algeria.
Pope marks anniversary of 'Laudato Si'' with call to prayer, action

VATICAN CITY — Commemorating the fifth anniversary of his encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis called on Christians to join in prayer and acts of care for the Earth and for the poor.
Pope Francis remembers 25 years of 'Ut unum sint,' John Paul II's letter on ecumenism

Pope Francis Monday remembered "Ut unum sint," St. Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on ecumenism, on the 25th anniversary of its publication.
Pope Francis entrusts China to the Blessed Virgin Mary

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis Sunday entrusted China to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and asked people to pray for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the most populated country in the world.
Vatican Museums will reopen June 1 as Italy opens borders to tourists

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums announced Saturday that it will reopen on June 1, two days before Italy opens its borders to European visitors after nearly three months of lockdown.
Around the globe, Catholics hope papal Mass online will continue

ROME — After the Vatican stopped livestreaming Pope Francis’ daily Masses this week, Catholics from around the world have urged the pope to resume the broadcast.
Vatican cautions Israel over West Bank annexation plan

VATICAN CITY — The Holy See is concerned about an Israeli plan to unilaterally annex a large portion of land in the West Bank, said a Vatican statement.
How St. John Paul II ‘bent the course of history’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The life of Pope Saint John Paul II is proof that religious belief and moral conviction can change the course of history, the pope’s biographer said May 18.
Baking cookies for St. John Paul II and other memories for his 100th birthday

VATICAN CITY — “Thirty-nine years ago today I was on my way into St. Peter’s Square when the pope was shot,” Joan Lewis said over the phone on May 13. It is just one of many vivid memories Lewis has of the years of her life that overlapped with St. John Paul II’s, including four decades in Rome, where she closely followed the pope as a journalist and later as a Vatican translator who worked on an apostolic exhortation and the pope’s last will and testament.
St. Peter's Basilica reopens to the public

VATICAN CITY — Almost 10 weeks after St. Peter's Basilica was closed to the public in cooperation with Italy's COVID-19 lockdown measures, the faithful and tourists were allowed back in May 18.
Postulator says he found no evidence St. John Paul covered up abuse

ROME — The postulator and the commission involved in investigating the life of Pope John Paul II for sainthood cause found no evidence that the pope knowingly neglected or covered up abuse scandals, the postulator said.
Benedict XVI hails John Paul II as ‘liberating restorer’ of church

John Paul II was a “liberating restorer of the church” in the turbulent years after the Second Vatican Council, Benedict XVI has said in a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the saint’s birth.
Pope Francis supports scholarships in Lebanon as country faces ‘severe crisis’

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has donated $200,000 to support 400 scholarships in Lebanon in an expression of his concern for the country’s young people, the Vatican announced Thursday.
Though hard times ahead, Vatican not at risk of default, official says

VATICAN CITY — Although the Vatican is facing difficult years ahead due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, its budget is not facing a massive default, said the prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.
Pope to nurses, midwives: 'Thank you for your service to humanity'

VATICAN CITY — The coronavirus pandemic has drawn well-deserved attention to nurses and midwives, who are among "the saints next door," dedicated to helping people in some of the most joyful or painful moments of their lives, Pope Francis said.
German bishops reject COVID-19 'conspiracy theories' by prominent clergy

BONN, Germany — Catholic bishops have distanced themselves from a letter in which several prominent Catholic clergy warned there were attempts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to create a "world government beyond all control."
Remember you are made for heaven, says Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY — We must always remember that we are made for heaven, Pope Francis said in his Regina Coeli address Sunday.
Pope Francis: the devil seeks to destroy the Church through envy

The devil uses envy to try to thwart the proclamation of the Gospel, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass Saturday.
Pope Francis: ‘Pass down the history of our salvation’

VATICAN CITY — It is important for Catholics to remember the whole of salvation history, and our belonging to the people of God’s covenant with Abraham, Pope Francis said at Mass Thursday.
Pope Francis: ‘Jesus saves us from the darkness’

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that Christ’s light illuminates the darkness of sin in our world and in ourselves. “It is the mission of Jesus to bring light. And the mission of the apostles is to bring the light of Jesus,” Pope Francis said in his morning Mass homily on May 6.

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