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April 13, 2015

Pope says Year of Mercy will be time to heal, to help, to forgive

Pope Francis presents a document officially proclaiming the 2015-2016 extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy to a cardinal in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 11. The pope handed copies of the document to the archpriests of the major basilicas of Rome and to Vatican officials representing Catholics around the world.

VATICAN CITY - Mercy is at the heart of the Church's credibility and the Church has a duty to profess it and live it, Pope Francis said in a document that officially proclaims the 2015-2016 extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy.

Published in Vatican
April 23, 2014

Women recount the stories of healing through intercession of popes

Daughter of Charity Sister Adele Labianca speaks during a press conference at the Vatican April 24 in advance of the canonization of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II. At right is Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. Sister Labianca gave her eyewitness account of the healing of Sister Caterina Capitani, the nun whose healing in 1966 was accepted as the miracle needed for the beatification of Pope John XXIII.

VATICAN CITY - People said Floribeth Mora Diaz was crazy to think Blessed John Paul II interceded with God to heal her brain aneurysm, but if so, "then it is a blessed craziness, because I'm healthy," she told reporters at the Vatican.

Published in Papal Canonizations