Indonesian sisters express their delight as Pope Francis enters the cathedral in Jakarta
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Gerard O'Connell
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Gerard O'Connell
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Senior Vatican Correspondent for America Media. 4 books incl. The Election of Pope Francis and The Election of Pope Leo XIV (co-authored with Elisabetta Piqué)
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Joined November 2011
- Pope Francis will not meet Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, during his visit to the Vatican in the coming days, so as to avoid being perceived as supporting one side in the forthcoming elections in the United States on Nov. 3. Vatican sources confirm the news.
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00:00 - Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the national stadium in Singapore for 50,000 Catholics on Sept. 12
00:00 - Hundreds of Indonesian priests and religious women from all over the country sing vespers in the Catholic cathedral in the center of Jakarta as they wait for Pope Francis to arrive and speak to them, Sept. 4
00:00 - Young Indonesian boy who greeted Pope Francis on his arrival at Jakarta airport, Sept.3
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- Pope Francis walking “on pilgrimage” to pray before a miraculous crucifix in church of St. Marcello in center of Rome that is said to have brought an end to plague after being carried in procession through the city in 1522
- Pope Francis, for the first time, appoints a woman, with the right to vote, as one of 2 under secretaries of the synod of bishops. He named the French religious woman, Sr. Nathalie Becquart, and Spanish Augustinian priest, Fr. Luis Marin de San Martin, as the under-secretaries
- BREAKING NEWS: Vatican said Pope Francis went to Russian Embassy to the Holy See this morning to express his concern for the war (in Ukraine), and spent a half-hour there.
- Pope Benedict XVI’S last words: ‘Jesus, I love you.’
- Pope Francis tells half a million young people at World Youth Day: “There is room for everyone in the church, for everyone, for everyone…including for those who make mistakes, who fall or struggle.” He got the crowd to repeat three times “per todos” (for everyone)
- Pope Francis bids farewell to the 200,000 people at the Fatima shrine before taking the helicopter back to Lisbon where he will preside at the concluding events of World Youth Day
00:00 - Pope Leo: “Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened,”
