Tag: Pope Francis
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The Genesis of a Jubilee Year of Hope
ANDRENIQUE ROLLE — Pope Francis’ 2025 prayer intentions address global and spiritual concerns during the Jubilee Year of Hope. Also in his message for the 58th World Day of Peace he calls for forgiveness freedom and systemic change to promote justice and human well-being.
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Pope Francis Establishes Annual Celebration of Local Saints in Dioceses Worldwide Ahead of 2025 Jubilee
EDITOR — Pope Francis has instituted an annual celebration dedicated to honoring local saints, referred to as the “saints next door,” in dioceses worldwide.
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Pilgrims of Hope – Jubilee Year 2025
EDITOR — The Jubilee calls us to confront global injustice and foster unity with the marginalized. Building on Laudato Si’, this Jubilee emphasizes an ecological conversion, urging the faithful to respect creation and commit to sustainable living.
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Desiderio desideravi
Welcomed with anticipation, the Apostolic Exhortation Desiderio Desideravi by Pope Francis delivers less and different than its address to the “people of God” promises. A critical analysis shows: The overdue liturgical formation of all “dear sisters and brothers” is not the focus, but rather the cultivation of an “educated” spirituality and ars celebrandi of the…
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Pope Francis Removes some Privileges from Cardinal Burke
A news item released from the Vatican on November 28th describes Pope Francis’ removing of certain Vatican privileges from the American Cardinal Raymond Burke. Burke, well-known in conservative Catholic media outlets, has been critiqued by Pope Francis as provoking “disunity” in the Church. This marks the second incidence this November in which Pope Francis has…
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World Day of the Poor 2023
Facing Christ in anyone who is poor “Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tobit 4:7). Pope Francis chose this theme for the seventh annual World Day of the Poor, observed on November 19, 2023, the Sunday before the Solemnity of Christ the King. The parish to which I belong is…
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Phyllis Zagano: “Synodal discernment and women in the diaconate”
The People of God have asked. The Synod may answer. What about women deacons?
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The Council Daybook, October 11, 1962
We are invited to find unity within our Western Church, as sons and daughters of Peter, and with all Christians, as daughters and sons of Mary.
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Brief Book Review: Catholic Discordance
“Borghesi convincingly presents the hostile efforts of American neoconservative Catholics to undermine the mission of Pope Francis.”