NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — As Pope Francis’ death hits home for Catholics and non-Catholics in Africa, many remember him as a Christian leader who had the continent at heart.
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Real conclaves: They aren’t the thrillers seen in film, professor says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Novels and films that include or revolve around a conclave often include nefarious plotting, or at least politicking, and attempts to wing it when it comes to the rules for electing a new pope.
Pope’s funeral set for April 26, public viewing April 23-25
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The funeral Mass of Pope Francis will be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced.
Global pastor: In word and deed, pope preached mercy, outreach
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of at age 88, gave new energy to millions of Catholics — and caused concern for some — as he transformed the image of the papacy into a pastoral ministry based on personal encounters and strong convictions about poverty, mission and dialogue.
‘God never abandons me’
Fr. Martin Ma Na Ling’s older brother, Stephen, loves God and the Church.
“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, God is always first,” said Fr. Martin, the parochial vicar of Holy Spirit Parish in Bowling Green.
This Lent, compare your life to a migrant’s, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis urged Christians to examine their consciences in Lent by comparing their daily lives to the hardships faced by migrants, calling it a way to grow in empathy and discover God’s call to compassion.
Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest
(OSV News) — Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack.
‘We will not let our community be divided in this way’ – Catholics urge protection for vulnerable amid new administration
WASHINGTON (OSV News) – Among the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders including on immigration, birthright citizenship and climate. Some Catholic organizations expressed concern about the scope of his orders and their potential impact on migrants.
Amid horrors of Holocaust, Polish Franciscan mother superior saved hundreds of Jewish children
WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — “I will not send away any Jewish child,” assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded by Father Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski in the mid-19th century.
Ukrainian art therapist helps people traumatized by the war that took her son
PITTSBURGH (OSV News) — Artist and psychologist Tetiana Myalkovska of Ukraine used her art therapy techniques to work with children who have special needs and with her country’s traumatized soldiers returning from the conflict when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.