NEW YORK - The Pope’s tour of the United States has the power to re-engage Catholics in a broad range of work for justice and to rediscover a broader, more Catholic perspective, Kate Bini said shortly after Pope Francis address to the United Nations.
Pope’s inspiration hits New York streets
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - In two days Pope Francis has spoken to some of the most powerful people on Earth — U.S. senators and Congress representatives and the world diplomatic community at the United Nations.
Power must not be wielded by the few, Pope tells UN
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - Pope Francis has come to the powerful to demand limits on power. He came to open a session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Sept. 25, to speak to the world’s diplomatic elite and the powerful forces they represent on behalf of the “victims of power badly exercised.”
New York goes crazy in a papal sort of way
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIt’s actually hard to gather a sense of how New Yorkers are responding to Pope Francis. Out on the street, it seems like there are no native New Yorkers. Everybody is either a tourist or part of a visiting TV crew, filing their own reports on how New Yorkers are greeting Pope Francis.
At New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pope embraces nuns once under Vatican fire
By Lauren Markoe, Religion News ServiceNEW YORK - In a grand yet intimate prayer service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Sept. 24, Pope Francis exhorted the priests and women religious who filled the sanctuary to redouble their sacrifices on behalf of the faithful, but he reserved his greatest praise for American nuns who have often been viewed by Rome with deep suspicion.
Pope's visit to Catholic Charities meal seen as sign of hope for the poor
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - Benedict Zama looked out from her table and Pope Francis was coming toward her moments after he arrived at the St. Maria's Meal program of Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese.
'No justification whatsoever' for lack of housing, Pope says
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - "We can find no social or moral justification, no justification, no justification whatsoever, for lack of housing," Pope Francis told an audience of about 200 clients of Catholic Charities gathered at St. Patrick Church.
‘Pope is hope’ to New York Latinos
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - Pope Francis’ appeal to Congress on behalf of migrants has heartened New Yorkers, none more so that Franciscan Father Julian Jagudilla, director of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi’s Migrant Centre.
Pope tells U.S. Congress to stop bickering, world needs your help
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - The past, the promise and the potential of the United States must not be smothered by bickering and even hatred at a time when the American people and indeed the world need a helping hand, Pope Francis told the U.S. Congress.
St. Junipero Serra brought Jesus to the worthy Native Americans
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs Pope Francis presided at the canonization of St. Junipero Serra I was inside the Museum of the American Indian down on the southern tip of Manhattan Island — the island purchased from the Canarsee nation in the 17th century with coloured beads.
Junipero Serra a trailblazer, Pope says at canonization Mass
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person's faith is alive only when it is shared.