Take-aways from the Vatican’s ‘Thursday Thunder’
- Aug 8, 2020
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Pope concerned by increased tensions between Armenia, Azerbaijan
- Jul 21, 2020
Pope Francis expressed his concern over escalating hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, prompting renewed fears of war in the Caucasus region.
Pope blesses statue of 10th-century Armenian saint in Vatican Gardens
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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