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Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.

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Pope Francis poses for a photo with participants in a conference sponsored by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2022. The pope told the business leaders, theologians and scholars that job creation, not charity, is essential for promoting sustainable development. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Creating jobs is key to 'inclusive' development, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Oct 10, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis walks by an image and relic of St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in the Vatican audience hall Oct. 10, 2022, during a meeting with pilgrims who had come to Rome for the Italian priest's canonization. St. Scalabrini founded a religious order that ministers to migrants and refugees. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Refusal to help migrants is 'sinful, criminal,' pope says at canonization

Cindy Wooden|Oct 9, 2022|5 Min Read

Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, a member of the German Synodal Assembly and of the Vatican Council for the Economy, stands with Bernhard Kotsch, German ambassador to the Holy See, after her presentation about the Synodal Path Oct. 4, 2022, at the German Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)

World

Germany's Synodal Path continues to draw attention in Rome

Cindy Wooden|Oct 5, 2022|4 Min Read

A banner honoring Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini is seen as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Angelus at the Vatican in this Jan. 17, 2010, file photo. On Oct. 9, 2022, Pope Francis will canonize Bishop Scalabrini, who founded separate missionary orders of men and women in the 1880s to provide for the pastoral needs of large numbers of Italian emigrants. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith

Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist

Cindy Wooden|Oct 4, 2022|3 Min Read

Projected images detailing the life of St. Peter the Apostle are seen on the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 2, 2022. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang for thousands in St. Peter's Square as the Vatican inaugurated a two-week showing of a short film about the life of St. Peter. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Thousands attend premiere of film on St. Peter's Basilica

Cindy Wooden|Oct 3, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 2, 2022. The pope begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine and condemned Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions. He also called upon Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be open to serious peace proposals. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope tells Putin: Stop the war

Cindy Wooden|Oct 2, 2022|3 Min Read

Adow Ibrahim Ali, right, is pictured in a file photo providing water to Ibrahim Osman Mohammed in a remote section of eastern Kenya near the Somali border. Traveling with his cousin, Mohammed left his home in Buale, Somalia, three weeks earlier because severe drought killed most of their animals. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Pope to schools: Educate migrants and refugees, but your own students, too

Cindy Wooden|Sep 29, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis holds a Ukrainian flag as he greets the crowd before Mass in St. Peter's Square during the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican in this June 25, 2022, file photo. Meeting Jesuits in Kazakhstan in early September, the pope said too many people have taken a simplistic view of Russia's war on Ukraine. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Invasion of Ukraine was barbaric, but war is complicated, pope tells Jesuits

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2022|2 Min Read

Mohtas Anwar Modier, a Sudanese refugee who received a visa to study in Italy, speaks at a conference on immigration in Rome Sept. 27, 2022. Government representatives and leaders of Catholic immigration efforts attended the conference sponsored, by the International Catholic Migration Commission and the Canadian Embassy to the Holy See. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

Healing by helping: Welcoming refugees builds community, speakers say

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2022|4 Min Read

Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Vatican archivist and librarian, speaks in the Vatican press hall Feb. 20, 2020. Pope Francis has named Cardinal de Mendonça to be prefect of the new Dicastery for Culture and Education. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope names prefect, secretary for Dicastery of Culture and Education

Cindy Wooden|Sep 26, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis is welcomed to Assisi, Italy, Sept. 24, 2022, by young economists, entrepreneurs, financial advisers, scholars and scientists who have been working for two years on the Economy of Francesco project. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Help the poor and the planet, pope tells young economists, entrepreneurs

Cindy Wooden|Sep 24, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Francis listens as Archbishop Javier Del Río Alba of Arequipa, Peru, president of the administrative council of the Populorum Progressio Foundation for Latin America and the Caribbean, speaks during a meeting with the council in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 16, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican)

Pope revamps fund for rural communities in Latin America, Caribbean

Cindy Wooden|Sep 16, 2022|2 Min Read

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