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FaithVatican Dispatch
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
To be Christian is to be open and welcoming to others, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Mass outside Hungary's Parliament building.
pope francis in white, seated next to hungary's president dressed in black, greets hungary's prime minister
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Mentioning some areas of common ground with Victor Orbán’s government, Pope Francis described as “ideological colonization” efforts to promote acceptance across Europe of “so-called gender theory.”
The Pope and a politician stand in front of a table with gifts on it
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal gave Pope Francis a book of photographs documenting the damage inflicted by Russian bombings of his country in a war that has lasted 14 months already.
Three Catholic priests and a man in a suit pose for a photo
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”
The exterior of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome is seen in this file photo from the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
A “breakdown in communication” led to permission being given to a group of Anglican clergy to celebrate the Eucharist in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran.
A crucifix in front of a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
In an apparent breach of the Vatican’s agreement with China on the appointment of bishops, the bishop of Haimen was installed as the bishop of Shanghai April 4.
pope francis speaks into a microphone
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 for “some previously planned tests,” the Vatican press office said, providing no further details.
pope francis sits whiles delivering a speech in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse, expanding the rules of “Vos Estis” to include Catholic lay leaders, who have the same responsibilities over members as a bishop over priests.
A man in black priest's garb speaks into a microphone
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
With a “firm intention to proceed with measures to ensure that situations similar to those reported will not occur again,” Father Verschueren said the Jesuits will begin an internal process that “may result in disciplinary action.”
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is pictured in a March 25, 2022, photo.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
With the first anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine just days away, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke about gratitude and powerlessness in the face of a “blind, absurd, sacrilegious war.”