Read more about the article Marriage is a gift from God that benefits everyone, pope says
Pope Francis signs an autograph for a boy at the end of an audience with members of the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, Rota employees and members of their families Jan. 27, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Marriage is a gift from God that benefits everyone, pope says

‘The love between husband and wife needs continual purification and maturation’

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Read more about the article Pope Francis condemns ‘spiral of death’ in the Holy Land
Friends and family mourn at the funeral of Rafael Ben Eliyahu, who was killed in a shooting attack in a synagogue by a Palestinian gunman, at a cemetery in Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2023. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters)

Pope Francis condemns ‘spiral of death’ in the Holy Land

Calls on Israelis, Palestinians to find way to end the violence

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Read more about the article Scholars, diplomats reflect on U.S. and Church’s response to the Holocaust
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, director of international academic programs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Mandel Center in Washington, D.C., seen on the left, and, on the right, Massimiliano Valente, a professor at the European University of Rome and University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway Associate, speak after a screening of segments of "The U.S. and the Holocaust" in Rome Jan. 27, 2023. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)

Scholars, diplomats reflect on U.S. and Church’s response to the Holocaust

‘The Vatican’s policy was not to condemn a single country but the entire war’

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Read more about the article U.S.-born priest to lead Vatican body overseeing selection of world’s bishops
Pope Francis greets Archbishop Robert F. Prevost, a Chicago native, during a private audience at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2022. The pope has named Bishop Prevost as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

U.S.-born priest to lead Vatican body overseeing selection of world’s bishops

Bishop Robert F. Prevost named to succeed Cardinal Ouellet

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Read more about the article Mission begins by meeting Jesus in the Scriptures and Eucharist, pope says
Pope Francis leads Benediction during a prayer service on New Year's Eve in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Dec. 31, 2019, file photo. The connection between the missionary call of every disciple and the gift of Jesus present in the Eucharist were at the center of the pope's message for World Mission Sunday, which will be celebrated Oct. 22. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Mission begins by meeting Jesus in the Scriptures and Eucharist, pope says

‘What the world needs is the love of God, to encounter Christ, and believe in him’

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Read more about the article God ‘suffers’ when believers injure, ignore those God loves, pope says
Pope Francis meets Anglican Archbishop Ian Ernest, the archbishop of Canterbury's representative in Rome, and Orthodox Metropolitan Polykarpos of Italy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate's representative in Rome, during an ecumenical evening prayer service marking the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 25, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

God ‘suffers’ when believers injure, ignore those God loves, pope says

‘It is the poor that Jesus proclaims blessed’

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Read more about the article Church tensions are not new or all bad, says Cardinal Hollerich
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, relator general of the Synod of Bishops, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican Jan. 23, 2023. Also pictured is Anglican Archbishop Ian Ernest, the archbishop of Canterbury's representative in Rome. Speakers discussed an upcoming ecumenical prayer vigil to be held Sept. 30, 2023, before the meeting of the Synod of Bishops. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Church tensions are not new or all bad, says Cardinal Hollerich

‘Good tensions sometimes are necessary for harmony’

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