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The Pope sings of love and the purity of the soul in the Assumption of Mary

León XIV has returned to Castelgandolfo to celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The glorification of Mary in soul and body teaches us that our true beauty lies in showing, even in our flesh, the signs of love that has no end, he stated in a beautiful homily.
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Pope Francis

Pope Francis. A decade at the head of the Church

Maria José Atienza

13 Mar 2023
Pope Francis 12 March

Pope Francis: "Jesus quenches our thirst with love".

Pope Francis prayed the Angelus from the window with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square. During his meditation, he focused on the request that Jesus addresses to the Samaritan woman in today's Gospel: "Give me a drink".

Paloma López Campos

12 Mar 2023
IOR

What has and has not changed in the so-called "Vatican Bank".

The Institute for the Works of Religion has had a new statute since March 7. A chirograph that, however, does not bring great novelties although it does change the governing body.

Andrea Gagliarducci

10 Mar 2023
Women church

Raffaella Petrini: "Women's leadership in the service of the Church".

"Women have innate gifts, including caring for others, which can be traced first and foremost in their structural capacity for motherhood," says Sister Raffaella Petrini, Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State.

Antonino Piccione

8 Mar 2023
Pope's Audience

Pope thanks women for building "a more humane society".

Pope Francis' thanks to women for "their commitment to building a more humane society, and their ability to grasp reality with a creative eye and a tender heart," marked today's general audience, along with the suffering for the "pain of the martyred Ukrainian people."

Francisco Otamendi

8 Mar 2023
Flaminia woman

Flaminia Giovanelli: More than "the question of women", it is necessary to deal with "the relationship between women and men". 

Interview with Flaminia Giovanelli, the first laywoman to hold a position of responsibility in the Vatican.

Marta Isabel González Álvarez

8 Mar 2023
council of cardinals

Pope Francis renews Council of Cardinals

Five new cardinals join this Council, created by Pope Francis a few months after his arrival at the Holy See and whose purpose is to advise the Pope on the governance of the Church.

Maria José Atienza

7 Mar 2023
Pope Francis Ukraine

Ukraine longs for Pope's visit

Maria José Atienza

6 Mar 2023
herranz

Cardinal Julián HerranzI do not see differences in doctrine between Benedict and Francis, but harmony".

Cardinal Julián Herranz has just finished a book with his personal testimony about Benedict XVI and Francis, of whom he has been a close collaborator during both pontificates. It will carry a prologue by Pope Francis. His conclusion is that there are different pastoral priorities between the two, but no fundamental differences. One detail: on the affection of the people for Francis, Benedict once told him: "I am happy and it gives me peace".

Nicolas Lopez

6 Mar 2023
pope angelus

"May the waters of the Mediterranean not be bloodied!" cries the Pope.

Pope Francis made a new appeal, during the Angelus prayer on the second Sunday of Lent, that "the clean waters of the Mediterranean not be bloodied" and that "human traffickers be stopped", following the shipwreck off the coast of Crotone (Italy). He also prayed for the victims of the train accident in Greece, and for the "martyred Ukraine".

Francisco Otamendi

5 Mar 2023

Pope's Travels

The day I was a Swiss Guard

Papua New Guinea, second stop on Pope Francis' trip
Mongolia

“You don’t need to be rich or powerful, just have love,” says the Pope in Mongolia
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis in Marseille, plurality as a resource
Hungary Pope

Hungary: Pope Francis' next destination
Pope Congo's journey

Poverty, tensions and women: challenges ahead of the Pope's visit to Africa
Pope's trip to Congo and Sudan

The Catholic Church in Congo and South Sudan
Congo

The Pope travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Mbote François”, Okay, now, welcome!
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis and initiatives for dialogue with Islam
Pope Francis Bahrain

Interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, a weapon to defuse any conflict

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Holywins: una alternativa alegre y católica a Halloween

Omnes Editorial Staff
pensamiento político san agustín

¿Cuál es el pensamiento político de san Agustín?

Santiago Leyra Curiá
Centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, 2017

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Francisco Otamendi
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