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Honor elders, learn gentle way of faith sharing from them, pope says
Celebrating Mass July 26 during his visit to Canada, Pope Francis said the feast of Jesus' grandparents was a call for all people to reflect on what they wished to hand on to future generations.
Indigenous and Catholic: One can proudly be both, pope says
During a July 25 stop on his "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada, Pope Francis said Christ had been "crucified in the many students of the residential schools," rather than presented as a Savior whose love embraces all cultures.
Pope apologizes for church role in residential schools
"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples," said Pope Francis, speaking July 25 near the former site of one of Canada's largest residential schools.
Pope arrives in Canada focused on elders, repentance
Landing in Edmonton July 24, Pope Francis met briefly with Indigenous and Canadian government leaders, ahead of a week-long visit during which he will ask forgiveness of First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities for residential school abuses.
Pope’s Canada trip: Beginning and ending with ‘sorry’
During his July 24-29 visit, Pope Francis will ask forgiveness for the Catholic Church's collaboration with that nation's government in abusing Indigenous children through the residential school system.
Pope modifies Opus Dei’s relationship to Curia, highlighting its ‘charism’
The order, which counts about 93,400 members, will now work with and answer to the Dicastery for Clergy, rather than the Dicastery for Bishops., said Pope Francis in a July 22 apostolic letter
Lithuanian archbishop urges firmer church stance on war in Ukraine
Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius said "much of what's happening today, including the mass deportation of Ukrainians to Siberia, strikingly resembles what happened" during Lithuania's five decades of Soviet occupation.
French report warns lack of upkeep poses danger to historic churches
Amid plummeting Mass attendance and dwindling clergy numbers, experts said thousands of historic churches, many dating from the Middle Ages, will have to be sold or demolished unless government officials allocate resources to maintain them.
Nigerian priest most recent to be kidnapped, killed
The body of Father John Cheitnum, one of two priests kidnapped by assailants July 15 from his rectory in Lere, was discovered July 19. Father Donatus Suleiman escaped abductors, among several groups attacking Catholics in recent weeks.
Appeals court upholds sentence against former Vatican bank president
Angelo Caloia, who served as president of the Institute for the Works of Religion from 1999 to 2009, will serve some eight years in prison for money laundering and embezzling millions of euros from Vatican property sales.