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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Mar 13

When #PopeFrancis was elected 12 years ago, his request that people pray for him was stunning. But he's asked for prayers almost every day since, so it seems normal. Here's that moment from March 13, 2023: youtu.be/5eYlRhvNVBY?...
And a story: www.usccb.org/news/2025/pa...

12 years of Pope Francis

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 24

#PopeFrancis still in critical condition, but showed some improvement today, doctors say. He is using the nasal cannula for oxygen, but with a lower flow. He worked today & this evening phoned the parish in Gaza to thank them for a video greeting they'd sent. (📸 at Gemelli hospital by Pablo Esparza)

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Even with #PopeFrancis in the hospital, people continue making their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimage to the Vatican.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 21

#PopeFrancis' doctors: 'Is the pope out of danger?' No, the pope is not out of danger" because of multiple factors, including being 88 & having double pneumonia. However, "if you ask, 'Is his life in immediate danger?' The answer is still, no."

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · Feb 11

Letter from Pope Francis to the Bishops of the United States on the Human Dignity of Migrants and Refugees.

«What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.»
vatican.va/content/france…

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 11

#PopeFrancis letter to US bishops: "I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, & all men & women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against & cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters."

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 11

#PopeFrancis re: @JDVance on "ordo amoris": "Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups." "The true ordo amoris ... is that which we discover by meditating constantly on parable of the “Good Samaritan”

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 11

On today's feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Catholic Church marks the World Day of the Sick. Read about the message #PopeFrancis wrote for the occasion. (📸Lola Gomez for CNS)
www.usccb.org/news/2025/ho...

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Feb 9

Scenes from the rainy welcome ceremony for the Jubilee of the Armed Services, Police and Security Personnel in Rome's Piazza del Popolo Feb. 8 by Chris Warde-Jones for Catholic News Service.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Jan 15

#PopeFrancis decides Vatican City State employees with three or more children will receive monthly bonus of €300 (about $309) until the child is 18 or, if continuing education, until 24. Also paid leave for new fathers, natural or adoptive, goes from 3 days to 5 days.

Pope Francis with children of Vatican employees just before Christmas

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Jan 15

#PopeFrancis gets in on the act when the circus comes to the #Vatican.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 31

#PopeFrancis, after a prayer service, goes to St. Peter's Square to see the Nativity scene and listen to the Swiss Guard band play Christmas carols. And he's distributed dozens of chocolate Santas to the children present.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Dec 30

The Holy Year 2025 and a long Christmas holiday mean big crowds at the Vatican

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 30

#PopeFrancis praises President Jimmy Carter's work for peace, human rights & care of the poor, and offers his condolences to those mourning the former president's passing.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 27

Before saying arrivederci to 2024, a look back at Pope Francis' year.
www.usccb.org/news/2024/po...

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pilgrims walk together toward the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 26

Before leaving Rome's Rebibbia prison after Mass, #PopeFrancis sends greetings to inmates unable to leave their cells and wishes everyone a Happy New Year, praying that 2025 will be a better year for all of them. And remember, he says, "hang on to hope" like you hang on to an anchor's rope.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 22

#PopeFrancis at the Angelus (indoors because he has a cold): Whenever we meet a pregnant woman or a mother carrying a baby, "let us pray in our hearts and say, like Elizabeth, 'Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb!'"

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 21

#PopeFrancis is holding his traditional pre-Christmas meeting with officials of the Roman Curia and College of Cardinals.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 18

The team at Catholic News Service Rome.

CNS staff members with St. Peter's Basilica in the background

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 18

Simone Legno, creator of Luce, the Vatican mascot for Jubilee 2025, also created a Nativity scene that is among 100 on display under the colonnade around St. Peter's Square. (Here's Luce first, then the creche)

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 15

With a quick, 50-minute flight from Corsica back to Rome, #PopeFrancis briefly greeted reporters but -- for the first time on the way home from a foreign trip -- he did not hold an inflight news conference. (📷 Vatican Media)

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 15

#PopeFrancis (and several dozen journalists) is on his way to Corsica for the day.

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 14

A little story and more photos from the living Nativity scene at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. (Cardinal Makrickas checks on the "baby Jesus.")
www.usccb.org/news/2024/na...

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Catholic News Service Rome @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social · Dec 14

#PopeFrancis this evening met with the people staging the living Nativity scene at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. Lovely photo by Pablo Esparza.

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