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Faithful crowd St. Peter's square during the Angelus prayer celebrated by Pope Francis, top right, from his studio window, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 25, 2021. Pope Francis has offered his blessing for the Tokyo Olympic Games from Vatican City. Francis told the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the traditional papal blessing that “in this period of pandemic, these Games are a sign of hope, a sign of universal brotherhood and of a healthy competitive spirit.” (Riccardo De Luca/AP via Crux)

Grandparents admit, like Pope said, sometimes they feel ‘discarded’

Inés San Martín|Jul 26, 2021|5 Min Read

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Pope Francis: With our small offering, Jesus can do great things

Catholic News Agency|Jul 25, 2021|4 Min Read

Pilgrims holding the Slovak flag cheer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican July 4, 2021, as Pope Francis announces he will visit their country Sept. 12-15. The visit will follow after the pope celebrates the closing Mass at an International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican publishes schedule for papal trip to Hungary, Slovakia

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jul 21, 2021|4 Min Read

An elderly woman becomes emotional as Pope Francis greets her as he arrives for a May 2014 weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Francis wanted the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on July 25 to be inaugurated as the world seeks to recover from a deadly pandemic, calling for the faithful to be "angels," who care, console and caress. (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)

Healthy roots: Elderly provide secure foundation for future generations

Carol Glatz|Jul 21, 2021|5 Min Read

A bust of Christ hangs from a wall next to a bullet impact at an abandoned home near Aguililla, Mexico, April 23, 2021. Pope Francis has sent a letter of encouragement to the town's residents as they confront battling drug cartels. (CNS photo/Alan Ortega, Reuters)

World

Pope offers his solidarity in letter to cartel-afflicted Mexican diocese

David Agren|Jul 20, 2021|3 Min Read

The prostration of the ordinands during the Litany of the Saints at the Fraternity of St. Peter's Roman parish, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome on June 22, 2013. (CNA)

More bishops issue statements on Latin Mass, following papal document

Catholic News Agency|Jul 19, 2021|5 Min Read

Pope Francis leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 18, 2021. After speaking about the day's Gospel reading and leading the prayer, the pope expressed his closeness to the people of Cuba a week after protests erupted on the island nation. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis says he is close to ‘the dear Cuban people’ after largest protests in decades

Catholic News Agency|Jul 18, 2021|5 Min Read

An areal view shows flooding in Erftstadt-Blessem, Germany, July 16, 2021. Pope Francis offered prayers and expressed his closeness to the people of Germany after severe flooding in the western part of the country claimed more than 80 lives. (CNS photo/Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Reuters)

World

Pope prays for victims of German floods as death toll rises

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jul 16, 2021|2 Min Read

Father Richard Munkelt celebrates a traditional Latin Mass July 1, 2021, at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Pope Francis issues restrictions on extraordinary form Masses in new motu proprio

Catholic News Agency|Jul 16, 2021|8 Min Read

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, is pictured in a Jan. 30, 2020, photo. Cardinal Marx, who was president of the German bishops' conference when the bishops and the lay-led Central Committee of German Catholics launched a "Synodal Path," recently offered to resign at the age of 67, saying that bishops must begin to accept responsibility for the institutional failures of the church in handling the clerical sexual abuse crisis. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)

Faith

Authority in a wounded church: Leaders see 'synodality' as way forward

Cindy Wooden|Jul 15, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis greets police officers before entering the Vatican after being discharged from Rome's Gemelli hospital following his recovery from colon surgery in this screengrab taken from a video July 14, 2021. (CNS photo/Cristiano Corvino, Reuters TV screengrab)

Pope released from hospital, prays at Rome basilica

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jul 14, 2021|2 Min Read

Pope Francis gives a rosary to Sister Carla, a member of the medical staff at Gemelli hospital in Rome July 11, 2021, as he recovers following scheduled colon surgery. Earlier the pope led the Angelus from a balcony at the hospital. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

Francis certainly can be pope from a hospital bed ... but will he want to?

John L. Allen Jr.|Jul 14, 2021|5 Min Read

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