Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 21, 2018 / 11:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer of the Church, confirming a person’s identity as a beloved child of God, and reminding Catholics of the responsibility owed toward their brothers and sisters in Christ, Pope Francis said Thursday. “‘Our Father’: these […]
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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — After months of study and discussion, the parishes of the Diocese of Rome have recognized “a general and healthy exhaustion” with doing the same things over and over, touching the lives of fewer and fewer people as time goes on, Pope […]
Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, who is head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, has warned in an open letter that Pope Francis might be leading the Church to “drift toward apostasy.” Eijk’s major concerns were based on Francis’ refusal to clarify Catholic doctrine on whether the non-Catholic partners […]
By Elise Harris Vatican City, May 9, 2018 / 02:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that nothing can take away a person’s baptism or the identity they thereby gain as a child of God, which is why this sacrament cannot be repeated. “Baptism is not repeated because it imprints […]
By Hannah Brockhaus Catholic News Agency Vatican City, Mar 3, 2018 / 01:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking to a group of nurses on Saturday, Pope Francis thanked them for their valuable work and paid a tribute to the Dominican nun who saved his life when he was a young man. “[She […]