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"When You Meet the Needy, Your Heart Grows Bigger" – For Argentine Feast, A Papal PSA 8 Aug 2013 | 03:21 am
In an attempt to travel "by heart" back home to mark today's feast of San Cayetano – the 16th century Italian priest St Cajetan, revered in Argentina as a patron of the poor and unemployed – the Pope ...
"The Czar's" Gift to Connecticut – Brooklyn's Caggiano to Roiled Bridgeport 1 Aug 2013 | 10:22 am
Resolving the longest-standing vacancy on these shores – and one that's had the natives even more on edge than usual – at Roman Noon the Pope named Bishop Frank Caggiano, the 54 year-old auxiliary and...
"Us Jesuits" – On Ignatius' Day, The Pope Comes "Home" 31 Jul 2013 | 11:42 pm
To mark this feast of his community's founder, St Ignatius of Loyola, earlier today the first Jesuit Pope joined some 200 of his confreres for a celebratory Mass at Rome's Gesu Church, following which...
Pope On Film 30 Jul 2013 | 10:52 am
Given the demographics of Stateside Catholicism's present and future, it'd seem that the bulk of this readership will easily understand the Pope's comprehensive responses to an exclusive interview Fra...
"Our Authority Is Exercised In Our Ability To Serve" – To the Bishops, Francis' "Enola Gay" 30 Jul 2013 | 04:33 am
Shortly before the Volo Papale left Rio last night, word quietly circulated that the Pope would hold an in-flight presser. On hearing it, it didn't take a rocket-scientist for the first thought to be,...
"Go. Don't Fear. Serve" – On "Popacabana," The Grand Finale 28 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm
Four and a half months in, we've just seen the most significant day of the new Franciscan Rule – yesterday, the Pope gave what's been termed the "most important" message of his Petrine ministry to dat...
Come To Papa – On Copacabana, Francis Draws 3 Million 28 Jul 2013 | 08:02 am
Even if we've already seen more than our share of incredible moments lately, well, here goes another one. All of five months ago, Jorge Bergoglio was unassumingly riding the buses and subways of his ...
"Let There Be Noise": Post-WYD, The Pope's "Action Plan" 28 Jul 2013 | 01:54 am
As we await the beginning of this World Youth Day's climactic Vigil on a jammed "Popacabana" beach, while much has been made of Francis' unscripted remarks to his fellow Argentine pilgrims in Rio's ca...
Pope to Bishops: "Are We Still A Church Capable of Warming Hearts? Do We Walk With People in Their Night?" 28 Jul 2013 | 12:01 am
(Ed. Note: It's long been the case that papal remarks to bishops tend to find a Pope speaking in his strongest terms. Accordingly, the following doesn't merely do that – it's the most extensive word F...
"What Does the Cross Teach Us?" – In Rio, Francis' Via Crucis 27 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Held before a crowd estimated at 1.5 million on "Popeacabana" beach, thanks to our friends at Toronto's Salt + Light, above is on-demand video – with English translation – of this WYD Friday's tradi...
