Armenia Archives

Pope blesses statue of 10th-century Armenian saint in Vatican Gardens

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Apr 5, 2018

During a brief ceremony in the Vatican Gardens, Pope Francis blessed a new statue of a 10th-century Armenian monk he had declared a “doctor of the Church” in 2015.

Inside the rough-and-tumble world of papal press conferences

Vatican
Dec 18, 2017

You might think coming up with questions to ask Pope Francis would be easy, but experience shows it can sometimes be a bare-knuckle affair.

A lesson from Azerbaijan about life in a global Church

Analysis
Feb 25, 2017

Salesian Father Vladimír Fekete, the Apostolic Prefect of Azerbaijan, recently made a couple of statements that may seem puzzling to Western ears. Walking a mile in his shoes, however, is basically the price of admission to life in a global Church.

Looking back at 2016, the Year of Surprises: Pope Francis

Vatican
Dec 20, 2016

In this series, Crux is examining Catholic highlights of 2016. Here we look back at a dramatic year for Pope Francis, in which the pontiff took six overseas journeys, issued a landmark document on the family, overhauled the Vatican’s bureaucracy, and also watched Benedict XVI occasionally step out of the shadows.

For Pope Francis, ‘memory of a people’ is always concrete

All Things Catholic, Analysis
Oct 1, 2016

While St. Pope John Paul II often conceived of the “memory of a people” in terms of its great cultural turning points and personalities, and Benedict XV saw it through an intellectual lens, Francis clearly sees the “memory of a people” embodied in the individual memories of concrete persons, especially the elderly.

What does the Armenia trip tell us about Pope Francis?

Analysis, Francis in Armenia, Vatican
Jun 27, 2016

Papal trips are important for many reasons, including what they reveal about a pope’s personality and priorities. Francis’s June 24-26 outing to Armenia was no exception, offering insights about the importance of Argentina, his seriousness about the Orthodox, and his stubborn streak.