Pope Francis Archives

Pope tells swimmers their sport’s anything but ‘liquid’
- Vatican
- June 24, 2017
Pope Francis, who’s an avid sports fan, told a group of swimmers on Saturday that their sport happens in the water, but it’s anything but ‘liquid,’ meaning ambivalent and lacking points of reference. He called on swimmers to learn lessons from their time in the water, including the importance of ‘making clean again everything that’s polluted, in sport and in life.’
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The curious Vatican diplomacy in Venezuela
- Commentary
- June 24, 2017
Pope Francis has not mentioned Venezuela since an extraordinary meeting with the nation’s bishops on June 8. Is this silence a sign the Vatican’s diplomatic efforts have been counterproductive in solving the country’s current political crisis?
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Living the Gospel is risky, embrace challenges with courage, pope says
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- June 24, 2017
Speaking to a lay organization that seeks to promote and foster vocations, Pope Francis said that Christians “need to have the courage to dare, not to let fear stifle their creativity, not to be suspicious of new things, but instead to embrace the challenges which the Spirit sets before them.”
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God loves, chooses, is faithful to those who are meek, pope says

“You did not choose. It was he who chose you, he called you and he bound himself to you and this is our faith,” Pope Francis said in his homily during Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lives. “He chooses the smallest, not the greatest, the smallest, and reveals himself to the little ones.”

When Pope Francis visits Chile, the story is in the ‘where’

Vatican

June 23, 2017

When a pope travels, usually the story is in the ‘what,’ meaning whatever he says and does before he gets there. When Pope Francis visits the La Araucanía region in southern Chile next January, however, the story is really the ‘where,’ given the way the Church has been targeted by a protest movement for indigenous rights.

New head of Pontifical Academy of Science a natural Francis choice

Vatican

June 23, 2017

With his choice of Joachim von Braun as the new President of the Pontifical Academy of Science, Pope Francis has indicated he wants the institution to take a more active role in trying to find solutions to planetwide problems like ending poverty and saving the environment.