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While the concept of Jesus Christ being King is as old as the Gospels, the feast is fairly recent in the Roman Catholic calendar.
The papal team includes Swiss Guards and migrants.
Rights groups have documented thousands of killings of Nigerian Christians.
‘If priests, if society look to God, then I think things will change,’ he said.
The pope said that justice and peace could be built only through ‘two paths.’
The pope’s new catechetical cycle is devoted to Jesus’ foster father.
‘The number of people forced to flee their homelands continues to grow,’ the pope said.
Secular Franciscan Order is holding its general chapter in Rome.
When one is faced with an important difficult decision, Pope Francis’ advice is to imagine standing before Christ at the “threshold of eternity” because that is what ultimately matters.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of 2,000 people living in poverty and the volunteers who assist them.
Seton Hall University and the Catholic University of South Sudan have entered into a partnership aimed at fostering student and faculty exchanges, joint research efforts, and other initiatives.
“We need journalists who are willing to ‘wear out the soles of their shoes,’ to get out of the newsroom, to walk around the city, to meet people, to assess the situations in which we live in our time,” Pope Francis said.
The pope was marking the UN agency’s 75th anniversary.
The pope met with a group of more than 500 poor people from across Europe.
The Vatican said that ‘various gaps’ had emerged at COP26 in Scotland.
The pope urged Catholics to keep a copy of the prayer with them.
The bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes.
In a reflection on the Gospel of the “widow’s mite,” Pope Francis spoke about hypocrisy and giving our all to God.
Pope Francis met members of the marriage ministry Retrouvaille, which helps struggling couples overcome difficulties in their relationship.
The bishops are currently meeting in Lourdes.