Tag: Pope Francis

“As a sign of spiritual closeness, His Holiness willingly invokes upon all the Filipino people God’s blessings of strength and peace”

“Let us make Jesus, the Living One, rise again from all those tombs in which we have sealed him,” Pope Francis said

Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross in front of a packed crowd in the Colosseum on Friday, April 15, 2022 (Rome time).

Pope Francis is leading this year's Easter celebration with large numbers of people expected to attend the Holy Week ceremonies for the first time since the pandemic

“It will be a Church that is more spiritual, poorer, and less political: a Church of the little ones.”

Pope Francis encouraged priests to set their temptations before Jesus, so that they can acknowledge them and reject them

In his general audience address on April 13, the pope contrasted the peace given by Jesus with idolatrous attitudes that lead to war

He said “the present moment leaves us deeply troubled, because it is marked by the forces of evil”

God can even bring an end to a war "whose end is not in sight, a war that daily places before our eyes ... atrocious cruelty"

“Christ is once more nailed to the Cross in mothers who mourn the unjust death of husbands and sons."