CNN, by B Christopher Lamb, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Ivana Kottasová: Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of…

Vatican News, by Joseph Tulloch: Eighty-eight “public-facing Catholics”, including five cardinals, came together in New York late last week for a three-day conference hosted by Fordham University. The ‘ecclesial gathering’, which was dedicated to Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti,…

USA Today, by Marc Ramirez: “Who am I to judge?” With those five words, Pope Francis signaled that his papacy was going to be different from his predecessors’, especially when it came to LGBTQ issues. In 2013, the pope was…

Politico, by Ben Munster: Pope Francis is seriously worried about his health after being hospitalized with severe bronchitis, and is rushing to tie up loose ends ahead of the battle to succeed him. The pope was admitted to a special…

PBS News, by Nicole Winfield: Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and…

Catholic News Agency, by AC Wimmer: Pope Francis has proposed celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea together with Orthodox leaders in a personal letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The letter, published by the Vatican…

USA Today, by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and Cybele Mayes-Osterman: President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest U.S. civilian honor, the White House announced on Saturday. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president,…

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Vatican News, by Deborah Castellano Lubov: As the war in Ukraine continues to claim countless lives, Pope Francis has met for the third time in the Vatican with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the Holy See Press Office, Pope…

Vatican News, by Deborah Castellano Lubov: Pope Francis renewed his appeal for a ceasefire in the Middle East and warned against spiraling into an even bigger war, at the conclusion of his Sunday Angelus address in the Vatican. Addressing the…

The Catholic World Report, by Christopher R. Altieri: There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to…