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Pope to celebrate Mass with migrants, refugees
According to the Vatican, the Mass July 8 will mark the sixth anniversary of the pope's visit to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Vatican to open tombs looking for young woman missing since 1983
Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican City resident and the daughter of a Vatican employee, disappeared in Rome June 22, 1983, when she was 15.
Migrant shelters suffer harassment as Mexico toughens enforcement
With the Mexican government stepping up efforts to stem the flow of migrants through the country, shelters have come under scrutiny not seen since the laws prohibiting the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants were removed in 2011.
Shepherding amid scandal: Archbishops talk about healing
In interviews with Catholic News Service, Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes and Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli spoke of the impact of clerical sexual abuse on the people of their dioceses and said survivors are the members of their flocks most in need of care.
Disciples seek God’s glory, not their own, pope says at Angelus
True disciples make "a free and conscious choice, made out of love, to reciprocate God's invaluable grace and not as a way to promote oneself," the pope said June 30 during his Sunday Angelus address.
Pope applauds Trump, Kim meeting in North Korea
After U.S. President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to set foot in North Korea, Pope Francis called his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a positive step toward world peace.
Pope to canonize Blessed John Henry Newman in Rome Oct. 13
The British theologian will be canonized during a Mass at the Vatican along with a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun and a nun known as the "Mother Teresa of Brazil."
Ecumenical goal is unity, not leveling differences, pope says
Orthodox Archbishop Job of Telmessos was representing Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at the pope's celebration of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, who were martyred in Rome and are the patron saints of the Roman church.
German church needs spiritual, not just structural, renewal, pope says
No quick "fixes" or organizational change will renew the Catholic Church in Germany, Pope Francis said; what is needed is a spiritual renewal and Gospel transparency.
Give your lives for your flocks, pope tells archbishops
After the Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2019, the pope presented palliums to new archbishops from around the world.