Read more about the article Synod reports show enthusiasm for mission, but also identify obstacles
Women pray at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Cairo April 23, 2017. The issue of the role of women in the church came up repeatedly in listening sessions preparing for the Synod of Bishops on synodality. (CNS photo/Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Reuters)

Synod reports show enthusiasm for mission, but also identify obstacles

All are called to look at each person as ‘someone loved by God’

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Read more about the article Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples
Pope Francis caresses the cheek of a child during an audience Oct. 24, 2022, with students and staff of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and Family in the Vatican's Clementine Hall. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples

‘We are not prophets of doom, but of hope’

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Read more about the article To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies
Pah Kler, a Burmese Catholic catechist who supervises the movement of food and other humanitarian supplies to internally displaced families hiding in the forests of Myanmar, loads food on a boat in Mae Sam Laep, a Thai village on the Salween River, which marks the border between Thailand and Myanmar, Sept. 29, 2022. Boats are loaded here with food and other humanitarian supplies, the first stage of transporting the material to communities of displaced people within Myanmar. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies

‘These people are as close as I’ve come to meeting real saints’

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Read more about the article Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has ‘disproportionate impact’ on women
A woman holds a baby in her arms in a school that serves as a shelter in Tabarre, Haiti, May 14, 2022, after two weeks of turf wars between rival gangs forced residents to flee their homes. (CNS photo/Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters)

Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has ‘disproportionate impact’ on women

“Multiple crises affecting the country are exposing girls to constant risks of ill-treatment’

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Read more about the article Pope announces a second session for Synod of Bishops assembly
Cardinals and bishops attend the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Oct. 28, 2018, file photo. On Oct. 2, 2022, Pope Francis heard syntheses from the listening phase of the 2023 Synod of Bishops. (CNS photo/Claudio Peri, pool via Reuters)

Pope announces a second session for Synod of Bishops assembly

‘It is necessary not to be in a rush’

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Read more about the article Sharing stories of faith revives faith of others, pope tells magazine staff
Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with the staff of "Mondo e Missione," the magazine of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Oct. 13, 2022. Helping the staff celebrate the magazine's 150th anniversary, the pope said Catholic media have a mission to help believers get to know the faith and struggles of their brothers and sisters around the world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Sharing stories of faith revives faith of others, pope tells magazine staff

‘In a world where communications have apparently shortened distances, ideological border controls have multiplied’

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Read more about the article Youth want community, safe spaces in church, council members tell pope
Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia takes a selfie with Pope Francis at the end of the pope's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square Oct. 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Youth want community, safe spaces in church, council members tell pope

‘The pope should send videos to youth directly about social issues that we might have’

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Read more about the article Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization
A portrait of St. Artemide Zatti is displayed as Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the canonizations of Sts. Zatti and Giovanni Battista Scalabrini at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization

‘Let us ask ourselves if we are really communities truly open and inclusive of all’

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Read more about the article Pope encourages young people to be peacemakers
Pope Francis greets a baby as he arrives for a meeting with a group of young Belgian Catholics Oct. 10, 2022, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. With Russia's war on Ukraine raging, the pope urged the young people to be peacemakers in their families and in the world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope encourages young people to be peacemakers

‘Be artisans of peace around you and within you’

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