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Pope greets patients, families at Paraguayan children’s hospital
The pope spent about half an hour in the "Ninos de Acosta Nu" general pediatric hospital, where he visited various wards and spoke privately with children and parents.
Pope says Paraguayans in poor barrio remind him of Holy Family
"I couldn't be in Paraguay without being with you, in your land," he told the crowd gathered outside St. John the Baptist chapel, one of 13 chapels in the huge Holy Family Parish. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis ministered in similar neighborhoods.
Highlighting prisoners, pope stops to listen to Paraguayan inmates sing
Although brief, the stop outside the Good Shepherd women's prison, where he blessed the women and received a hand-embroidered stole from them, reinforced the concern for prisoners expressed in Bolivia earlier that day.
South America, Cuba-U.S. trip itineraries show heart of pope’s faith
With almost every step Pope Francis takes on his foreign trips and with his every embrace, he pleads for dialogue and inclusion.
Close to home, pope highlights need for cooperation for common good
Only 25 miles from the border with Argentina, tens of thousands of Pope Francis' fellow Argentines filled the square in front of the shrine and the streets around it July 11 to pray with "their" pope.
Vatican court delays abuse trial after ex-nuncio hospitalized
However, during the trial's opening session July 11, Vatican prosecutors formally listed all the charges against the laicized former archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski.
‘Gift box’ introduces Pan Am Games visitors to problems of trafficking
The project "will educate people about the very real, local face of human trafficking and empower them to take action to end it," said Kelly Colwell, the project's coordinator.
At Bolivian prison, pope calls himself man ‘saved from his many sins’
Speaking on the final morning of his less than 48-hour visit to Bolivia, the pope called for conversion and a changing of attitudes among inmates in their relations among each other and the broader society, which often views such populations with suspicions.
Pope to activists: Defend the earth, demand economic reform
Addressing the World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz July 9, Pope Francis acknowledged he did not have a "recipe" for a perfect economic-social-political system, but he said the problems with the current system are obvious and the Gospel contains principles that can help.
Pope calls on Bolivian priests, religious to remember their roots
"Give thanks for memory," the pope said July 9 in the city of Santa Cruz, alluding to the audience's origins. "Don't forget where you were pulled from. They pulled you from the back of the pack. Don't ever forget that."