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Workers prepare St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for Holy Week celebrations March 31, 2023. Pope Francis will be present in the square for the Palm Sunday Mass, the Vatican said.

Pope Francis set to leave hospital after three-day stay for bronchitis

Pope Francis enjoyed a pizza "party" with staff on his second night at Rome's Gemelli hospital and was expected to be released from the hospital April 1, the Vatican press office said.

Members of the media are seen outside of Rome's Gemelli hospital March 30, 2023. Pope Francis was admitted to the hospital March 29 due to concerns over breathing difficulties and was diagnosed with a "respiratory infection," according to the Vatican.

Doctors report 'marked improvement' in Pope Francis' condition

More than 24 hours after he entered the hospital, Pope Francis' doctors reported a "marked improvement" in his condition, which they attributed to treatment with intravenous antibiotics.

Pope Francis meets with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities at Maskwacis, Alberta, July 25, 2022.

Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows 'doctrine of discovery'

The Catholic Church formally "repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political 'doctrine of discovery,'" a Vatican statement said.

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, attends a press conference to discuss revisions to the Code of Canon Law, at the Vatican June 1, 2021. Pope Francis has promulgated a revised section of the Code of Canon Law dealing with crimes and punishments.

Pope Francis issues updated 'Vos Estis' text for handling abuse cases

Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse or the cover up of abuse, specifying that the leaders of Vatican-recognized international Catholic lay associations and movements have the same responsibilities over their members that a bishop has over the priests of his diocese.

Known as the “Professor of Spacewalking,” Allissa Battocletti Noffke is pictured above at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston training an astronaut in using the tools that are needed during a space mission. An alum of Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis, Battocletti Noffke, 35, also works with Mission Control when American astronauts are in space.

Faith the foundation for spacewalk prof

The path to Easter is Christ’s Way

The path to Easter is Christ’s Way

In this final stretch before Easter, let’s return to where we began — looking at the entirety of Christ’s way of being, as an integral whole of truth, goodness and beauty. Any other way risks removing something essential. 

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix of Quebec as he arrives to lead his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 4, 2023. Pope Francis named him as one of five new members to his international Council of Cardinals March 7, 2023.

Cardinal Lacroix of Quebec named to Pope Francis' council of advisers

Pope Francis named five new members to his international Council of Cardinals and renewed the mandate of four current members, the Vatican announced March 7.

Pope Francis meets with cardinals at the Vatican Aug. 29, 2022. The meeting was to reflect on the apostolic constitution "Praedicate evangelium" (Preach the Gospel) on the reform of the Roman Curia.

Pope Francis says cardinals, top Vatican officials, must pay rent on Vatican housing

Cardinals and other senior Vatican officials who have been living rent-free in Vatican-owned apartments in Rome will now have to pay "ordinary" unsubsidized rates, Pope Francis said.

Hearing the Lenten call to conscience

Hearing the Lenten call to conscience

Pope Francis greets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a meeting that also included Hungarian President János Áder at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 12, 2021. The Vatican announced Feb. 27, 2023, that Pope Francis will travel to Hungary April 28-30, 2023.

Pope Francis will travel to Hungary at end of April

Pope Francis will travel to Hungary April 28-30 where he will meet with government officials, refugees, academic scholars and young people in Budapest, the Vatican announced Feb. 27.

A crown of thorns is pictured during Lent at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church in Dunkirk, Md., April 7, 2022.

A Lenten walk in the fullness of Christ’s Way

When Christ calls Himself the Way, the Truth and the Life, it raises the question: What does it mean to follow that Way, share that Truth, live that Life?

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