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Cindy Wooden

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Editor in chief of Catholic News Service Rome (www.usccb.org/newsroom) The feral parakeets of Rome make me smile and I can't pass up an opportunity for a good puddle shot.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Apr 23

Carrying #PopeFrancis’ body in an open casket into St. Peter’s Basilica this morning.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Mar 25

The Annunciation in the cloister of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Mar 5

Went to #AshWednesday Mass in the Church of San Pellegrino, one of the oldest churches in the Vatican, probably constructed during the pontificate of Leo III (795-816)

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Mar 2

Praying for #PopeFrancis under his room at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 6

A boy displaced by war eats Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Riimenze, South Sudan. RUTF is a fortified peanut butter paste used to treat severe acute malnutrition. It's made at a plant in the state of Georgia and distributed by USAID, which bought $200 million of RUTF last May. No more.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 25

Rome now.

Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 23

The sun is out!

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 17

At the Vatican, the Franciscan Cardinal Gambetti blesses animals in the feast of St. Anthony the Abbot.

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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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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · Jan 11

President Biden to Pope Francis, today

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 11

While President Biden canceled his trip to the Vatican yesterday, he spoke to #PopeFrancis by phone today, informing the pope that he had conferred on him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

President Biden Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction to His Holiness Pope Francis | The White House

Today, President Biden spoke with His Holiness Pope Francis and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. The

www.whitehouse.gov

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 8

St. Peter’s Basilica this morning

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Jan 2

Morning light. #Rome

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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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Dec 21

Herding cats, Vatican edition.
#PopeFrancis poses for a photo with the children of Vatican employees after giving each of them a chocolate Santa.

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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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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · Dec 11

The thing that's sticking with me regarding the conversations I've had over the last couple of weeks with community organizations in San Diego is how these organizations are working with parents to develop school pick up and childcare contingency plans if they get scooped up in a deportation raid.

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Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Dec 6

Journalists’ opportunity to interview some of tomorrow’s new cardinals. This is Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo from Ivory Coast

Cindy Wooden @cindywooden.bsky.social · Dec 5

Sneaking a peek at the Vatican Nativity scene with its lagoon and a fisherwoman guiding a boat with the 3 Magi — it’s the work of folks in Grado, Italy, on an island between Venice and Trieste. It will be unveiled Saturday evening.